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WEEKLY COLLEGE QUOTE
APRIL 16, 2012
"When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price." - Arthur Ashe
APRIL 9, 2012
"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?" - Erich Fromm
APRIL 2, 2012
"To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks." - A. A. Milne
MARCH 26, 2012
"To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated."
- Edith Hamilton
MARCH 19, 2012
"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." - Sydney J. Harris
MARCH 12, 2012
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." - Aristotle
MARCH 5, 2012
"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."
- Carl Rogers
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
"Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle."
- Robert Anthony
FEBRUARY 20, 2012
"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."
- Abigail Adams
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense." - Robert Green Ingersoll
FEBRUARY 6, 2012
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship." - Aeschylus
JANUARY 30, 2012
JANUARY 23, 2012
"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."
- Daniel J. Boorstin
JANUARY 16, 2012
JANUARY 9, 2012
"At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros." - Paul Freund
JANUARY 2, 2012
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't." - Anatole France
DECEMBER 26, 2011
“If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” - Stephen Covey
DECEMBER 19, 2011
“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.” - Coach John Wooden
DECEMBER 12, 2011
“Young cat, if you keep your eyes open enough, oh the stuff you would learn! The most wonderful stuff!" - Dr. Seuss
DECEMBER 5, 2011
"You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it." - John Updike
NOVEMBER 28, 2011
"When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price." - Arthur Ashe
APRIL 9, 2012
"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?" - Erich Fromm
APRIL 2, 2012
"To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks." - A. A. Milne
MARCH 26, 2012
"To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated."
- Edith Hamilton
MARCH 19, 2012
"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." - Sydney J. Harris
MARCH 12, 2012
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." - Aristotle
MARCH 5, 2012
"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."
- Carl Rogers
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
"Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle."
- Robert Anthony
FEBRUARY 20, 2012
"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."
- Abigail Adams
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense." - Robert Green Ingersoll
FEBRUARY 6, 2012
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship." - Aeschylus
JANUARY 30, 2012
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - Malcolm Forbes
JANUARY 23, 2012
"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."
- Daniel J. Boorstin
JANUARY 16, 2012
"Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed." - Erma Bombeck
JANUARY 9, 2012
"At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros." - Paul Freund
JANUARY 2, 2012
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't." - Anatole France
DECEMBER 26, 2011
“If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” - Stephen Covey
DECEMBER 19, 2011
“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.” - Coach John Wooden
DECEMBER 12, 2011
“Young cat, if you keep your eyes open enough, oh the stuff you would learn! The most wonderful stuff!" - Dr. Seuss
DECEMBER 5, 2011
"You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it." - John Updike
NOVEMBER 28, 2011
"You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world." - Tom Brokaw
NOVEMBER 14, 2011
"To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks." - A.A. Milne
NOVEMBER 7, 2011
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." - Aristotle
OCTOBER 31, 2011
"The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions." - Bishop Mandell Creighton
OCTOBER 17, 2011
"The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match, each one of you is a fuse."
- Ed Koch
OCTOBER 10, 2011
"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource." - Jack Kennedy
OCTOBER 3, 2011
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." - e.e. cummings
SEPTEMBER 26, 2011
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!" - Andy McIntyre
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
"Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!" - Louisa May Alcott
SEPTEMBER 5, 2011
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
- Nelson Mandela
AUGUST 29, 2011
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats
AUGUST 22, 2011
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
AUGUST 15, 2011
"I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students." - Carl Sagan
AUGUST 8, 2011
"I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated." - Al McGuire
AUGUST 1, 2011
"The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
JULY 25, 2011
"I have never let schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
JULY 18, 2011
"The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure." - Sydney J Harris
JULY 11, 2011
"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." - Thomas Alva Edison
JUNE 27, 2011
"Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius." - Robert Brault
JUNE 20, 2011
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
- Pablo Picasso
JUNE 13, 2011
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go." - Dr. Seuss
JUNE 6, 2011
"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable."
- Wendy WassersteinMAY 30, 2011
"Great ideas need landing gear, as well as wings." - CD Jackson
MAY 23, 2011
"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."
- Thomas Henry Huxley
MAY 16, 2011
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch he trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
MAY 9, 2011
"80% of the final exam will be based on the one lecture you missed and the one book you didn't read." - Third Law of Applied Terror
MAY 2, 2011
"Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college."
- Bill Vaughn
APRIL 25, 2011
"Education is what remains when one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
- Albert Einstein
APRIL 18, 2011
"Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't."
- LL Henderson
APRIL 11, 2011
"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."
- Jacob Chanowski
APRIL 4, 2011
"You can lead a boy to college, but you can't make him think." - Elbert Hubbard
" A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product, but an indication a person is prepared for life.
- Rev. Edward A. Malloy
MARCH 21, 2011
"America's future walks through the doors of our schools every day."
- Mary Jean LeTendre
