Purpose Of College Education Quotes

#1. The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.

Derek Bok

#2. What we have before us then, is three distinct purposes for a university: the commercial purpose (starting a career), Stephen Pinker's cognitive purpose (acquiring information and learning how to think) and (William) Deresiewicz's moral purpose (building an integrated self).

David Brooks

#3. I can't go back to what we had in childhood. I can't relive those times, retrace my tracks and undo what's been done. It's not like writing a book and rewriting the ending to make it happier.

Patti Callahan Henry

#4. The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.

Joseph Sobran

#5. You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

Ajay Naidu

#6. Sex does not exist for me at all. I haven't had a boyfriend for a long time. There were only three or four in my life up until now anyway.

Kim Wilde

#7. So the highest and the happiest of endeavors is to be a philosopher ? Doesn't it seem self-serving for a philosopher to make that claim?

Irvin D. Yalom

#8. In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

H. G. Bissinger

#9. The writer's object should be to hold the reader's attention. I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end. This is accomplished only when the narrative moves steadily ahead, not when it comes to a weary standstill, overloaded with every item uncovered in the research.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#10. Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. Do not think me fussy when I specify tidiness. It is essential ... In printing, remember that cleanliness and order wait upon success.

Walter J. Phillips