Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
College Quotes
A college education was for me life-changing. It gave me a life-long passion for reading and learning. It challenged my narrowness and parochialism – really forced open my mind. It deepened my commitment to culture in general and to the higher forms of pleasure. Thus it enriched my life – permanently – by confirming me […]
Enter by this gateway and seek the way of honor, the light of truth, the will to work for men.
At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything. Money and fame meant nothing to them. They were not worldly men.
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
College is like a fountain of knowledge – and the students are there to drink.
College ain’t so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
“D’ye think th’ colledges has much to do with th’ progress iv the wurruld?” asked Mr. Hennessy. “D’ye think,” said Mr. Dooley, “’tis th’ mill that makes th’ water run?”
Colleges… have their indispensible office – to teach elements. But they can highly serve us when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.
There is not the slightest probability that the college will foster an eminent talent in any youth. If he refuse prayers and recitations, they will torment and traduce and expel him, though he were Newton or Dante.
