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"One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
"Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top."
Paglia, Camille
"Oxford is -- Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another."
Forster, Edward M.
"Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies."
Santayana, George
"Remote and ineffectual don."
Belloc, Hilaire
"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all."
Unknown, Source
"Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge."
Trevelyan, G. M.
"The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
"The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach."
Wilde, Oscar
"The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring."
Davies, Robertson
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