Purpose Of College Quotes

#1. The primary purpose of going to college isn't to get a great job. The primary purpose of college is to build a strong mind, which leads to greater self-awareness, capability, fulfillment, and service opportunities, which, incidentally, should lead to a better job.

Sean Covey

#2. the primary purpose of college is to become a learner.

Matthew Sanders

#3. 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

#4. Whether you're working with kindergartners or adults, 8th-graders or college students, you undertake what you do, as educator and activist William Ayers puts it, "with hope and purpose but without guarantees.

Gregory Michie

#5. AVERT DISASTER, in fact, would have been a perfect school motto - the purpose of the place, as far as Schwartz could tell, was to keep three thousand would-be maniacs sedated by boredom until a succession of birthdays transformed them into adults.

Chad Harbach

#6. You know what love is?
It is all kindness, generosity.

Rumi

#7. I don't really like being emotional. Public displays of emotion, I don't really do that sort of stuff. I don't know why. I would like to be the type that doesn't worry about that.

Mark Viduka

#8. This isn't a game to me, Fable. This is my life. And I want you to be a part of it ... I want you and you only. I'm not sharing you with anyone else.

Monica Murphy

#9. College campuses are populated by and endless throng of happy, dancing, fully conversational creatures who seem to exist from the sole purpose of reinforcing your utter alienation. I tried to take comfort in the fact that hell is other people and ultimately we are alone anyway.

Jacqueline Novak

#10. Ah! A man who doesn't know how to watch love is so silly. You really need a lesson.

Rachilde

#11. 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

#12. The purpose of the university is to make students safe for ideas - not ideas safe for students.

Clark Kerr

#13. 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

#14. Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college.

Noam Chomsky

#15. The collar represented something of big importance to her. He knew she saw it as losing who she was. He saw it as her trusting him enough to let him be in charge.

Starla Kaye

#16. 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

#17. Quality is the Buddha.

Robert M. Pirsig

#18. He could be disciplined when he wanted to be.

Alexandra Robbins

#19. I should move away from his touch. But he's a constant storm in my life, clouding my head, ensuring I make bad decisions. He doesn't do it on purpose, he knows we're not good for each other, but there's something about us that makes us fight back harder, thinking we can overcome it.

Brittany Butler

#20. Some people make headlines while others make history.

Philip Elmer-DeWitt