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“I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.”

Ifs Years Art Students Taught College Aim Experts Just Saying College Students Undisputed Pomposity

Book:Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll

Source: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll

“The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.”

Knows Ends Goal College Aim Meat

Book:The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois

Source: The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois

“Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.”

Heart Education Teach Fire Youth College Genius Office Elements Aim Various Flames Halls Rays Indispensable Drills

Book:The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All men cannot go to college but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have for the talented few centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living, as to have no aims higher than their bellies, and no God greater than Gold.”

Men Hard Nations Greater Groups College Higher Training Gold Aim Isolated Earning Toil Belly Aim High Yeast Earning A Living

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.”

Knows Men Education Teach College Philosophical Aim Good Man Carpe Diem College Education Aim Of Education

Author:William James

“Very often when we aim at the best, or what we may think is the best for our children, we aim really at lesser things, such as getting into a certain college.”

Thinking May Children Certain College Our Children Aim

Author:Michael Sandel