“I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it has been copied, I believe, by nearly every college and academy in the United States. That is, the holding the students all to one prescribed course of reading, and disallowing exclusive application to those branches only which are to qualify them for the particular vocations to which they are destined. We shall, on the contrary, allow them uncontrolled choice in the lectures they shall choose to attend, and require elementary qualification only, and sufficient age.” BelieveHas BeensStatesAgeChoicesCoursesReadingI BelieveUnitedEducationKnowledgePracticeUnited StatesLearningStudentsCollegeParticularAuthorityContrarySufficientBranchesApplicationDestinedVocationExclusiveLecturesAcademyVaryHarvardQualificationsFree Thought Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.” IfsBelieveDreamI BelieveSecretGreatnessCollegeProjectsResearchPreservesFreshman Author:Edwin Land
“A lot of times, kids go to college and take a major because they do what they think they're supposed to do. I told them I believe 90 percent of America gets up in the morning and drives to a job they hate. That could have happened to me in the hotel industry.” ThinkingBelieveKidsJobsAmericaHateI BelieveMorningHappenedCollegeIndustryMajorsPercentGet UpHotel Author:Dana White
“I had an unorthodox high-school experience; I shifted around to different schools. When I got to college and met Larry Sacharow, who ran the theatre department [at Fordham University in NYC], he was the first person to say ‘I believe in you.’ At that point, I just needed someone to say ‘I see you, I get you, let’s go.’ It’s an amazing thing to borrow someone else’s confidence in you; it can change your life.” FirstsBelievePersonsDifferentSchoolI BelieveCollegeNeededMetsHigh SchoolUniversityI Believe InTheatreRanDepartmentBelieve In YouChanging Your LifeAmazing ThingsFirst PersonLarryNycUnorthodoxI Believe In YouNeeded SomeoneSchool Experience Author:Taylor Schilling
“I believe that you have a boyfriend for certain times of your life, and I think the boyfriend who is your most beautiful first boyfriend is not the boyfriend that you're with in college, and your college boyfriend is not your first boyfriend!” ThinkingFirstsBelieveBeautifulCertainI BelieveCollegeTime Of Your LifeFirst Boyfriend Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino
“I studied piano and viola and voice in high school and music composition in college. For many years before I became an author I was a singer songwriter, writing for Disney and Sesame Street. I believe in perfect rhymes - no cheating!” WritingYearsBelieveSchoolI BelieveVoicePerfectStreetsCollegeHigh SchoolI Believe InSingersPianoCheatingCompositionSongwritersRhymeSinger SongwritersViolaSesame StreetNo Cheating Author:Sarah Weeks
“Robert Frost really started this whole thing rolling. He was, I believe, the first poet who started going to colleges. Before that, poets didn't give public readings very often, certainly not - there was no circuit of schools.” GivingFirstsBelieveWholeSchoolReadingI BelieveCollegePoetRollingFrostCircuitsGoing To College Author:Billy Collins
“I believe that the fragile-flower, idea-intolerant society of victimhood that is being cultivated in many colleges today is really bad.” BelieveIdeasTodayI BelieveCollegeFlowerFragileVictimhood Author:Gene Weingarten
“I believe capital gains, for the most part, should be taxed the same way we tax income from hard work, sweat, and toil. And if we do those things, we can be a country that actually can afford debt-free college again.” IfsWayShouldBelieveCountryHardI BelieveCollegeHard WorkTaxesGainsDebtIncomeSweatToilCapital GainsDebt Free Author:Hillary Clinton
“I believe you need to be educated about what you want to do in life, but I don't believe you actually need college to get you there.” WantNeedsBelieveI BelieveCollegeDon't BelieveWhat You WantEducatedI Don't Believe You Author:Will Smith
“I believe in affordable college, but I don't believe in free college, because every expert that I have talked to says, look, how will you ever control the costs.” BelieveLooksI BelieveCollegeCostDon't BelieveI Believe InExpertsAffordable Author:Hillary Clinton
“I was able to meet young black people from all over the country who were focused on education and on elevating themselves.I'm endorsing and supporting this initiative because I believe college is a blessing, and for young black people coming out of areas that are struggling ... for them to see college as their future, that's a blessing.” PeopleBelieveCountryAbleYoungI BelieveBlackStruggleCollegeBlessingAreasFocusedBlack PeopleComing OutInitiativeElevatingEndorsing Author:Common
“I believe that if we have to pay 100 percent for our college tuition, and then we get into the workplace, and we're only given 70 percent of our counterparts' salaries, then we shouldn't have to pay but 70 percent of our college tuition. Maybe that'll stop the bullshit.” IfsBelieveGivenI BelievePayCollegePercentBullshitWorkplaceSalaryCounterpartsTuitionCollege Tuition Author:Pam Grier
“Even though I did not go into college teaching, I believe the education I did receive helped me to become a better coach.” BelieveI BelieveTeachingCollegeCoaches Author:LaVell Edwards
“I believe America went wrong in terms of respecting the First Amendment, the state of free speech on American college campuses and on the media and in academia.” FirstsBelieveStatesAmericaI BelieveTermMediaCollegeSpeechAmendmentsFree SpeechFirst AmendmentCampusAcademiaCollege Campus Author:Milo Yiannopoulos
“I believe that teachers - whether in elementary schools, at the secondary level, or at colleges and universities - every teacher deserves the Nobel Peace Prize just for maintaining order in our schools!” BelieveSchoolOrderI BelieveLevelsTeacherCollegeDeserveUniversityPrizeMaintainingNobelElementary SchoolColleges And UniversitiesNobel Peace PrizeMaintaining Order Author:John Lewis