Rebecca Mead Quotes

#1. I would have thought that one of the things one should learn from college is that nothing is guaranteed. Even if you study something as vocational as accountancy, you still may end up not getting a job as an accountant.

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#2. Of course we all know people who aren't cut out for college, but I know it's a mistake to think of education only as a route to a better career. Reading books, studying history - all these things contribute to making us better citizens, too.

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#3. A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a book.

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#4. My master's degree was in journalism, but everything important I ever learned about being a journalist I learned on the job.

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#5. I loved Middlemarch, and I loved being the kind of person who loved it.

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#6. I think it's a terrible mistake to only think in terms of a degree "buying" you something.

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#7. The best education for a writer, I think, is to read a lot - college can be a good place to do that.

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#8. My longest love affair: with a book.

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#9. I'm not a policy expert - I am only arguing that there is more to an education than an economic ticket.

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#10. Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity.

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#11. Books gave us a way to shape ourselves - to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who we wanted to be. They were part of our self-fashioning, no less than our clothes.

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#12. Being absolutely sure that one is right is part of growing up, and so is realizing, years later, that the truth might be more nuanced.

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