“I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.” HomeMightSchoolSawsCollegeHigh SchoolEntertainingOutsidersSchooled Author:Maggie Stiefvater
“I'm so happy that I finished college. Going into this crazy vortex of scrutiny is tough. If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self. I might rely on those cameras. Because when I was 18, I was half-baked.” IfsSelfShowsMightHalfCrazyFashionCollegeToughCamerasFinishedRelySense Of SelfScrutinyVortexFashion Show Author:Allison Williams
“There's got to be a point where we fix the system so that legal immigration is easier than illegal immigration and show respect for people, a kid who might have been here for 10 years, that might be a valedictorian of their high school to say, no, no, no you're not allowed to go to college. I just think there's a point past which we are over the line.” PeopleThinkingYearsHas BeensShowsMightKidsSchoolPastLinesCollegeEasierHigh SchoolImmigrationIllegalMight Have BeenIllegal ImmigrationLegal ImmigrationShow RespectValedictorians Author:Jeb Bush
“So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.” WellsImportantMightCollegeImportant ThingsAcquireBullshitMeter Book:College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be Source: College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be
“I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity.” PhilosophyMightTeachSeaGreatnessCollegeAtmosphereIslandsFacultyMediocrityPettiness Author:I. F. Stone
“When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition.” MenWellsBookMightYoungFatherCollegeSonMarkBlessedGood ThingsFortuneLeavingExcellentDisposition Book:Framley Parsonage: A Novel Source: Framley Parsonage: A Novel
“The [Stanford Prison Experiment] was readily approved by the Human Subjects Research committee because it seemed like college kids playing cops and robbers, it was an experiment that anyone could quit at any time and minimal safeguards were in place. You must distinguish hind sight from fore sight, knowing what you know now after the study is quite different from what most people imagined might happen before the study began.” PeopleKnowsHumansDifferentMightHappensKidsKnowingStudySubjectsCollegeResearchSightPrisonQuittingExperimentsCopCommitteesApprovedRobbersStanfordKids PlayingCops And Robbers Author:Philip Zimbardo
“The NBA's been around how long? A hundred years? Fifty years? So to change it now, whoever that person is needs his college degree revoked....Whoever did that needs to be fired. It was terrible, a terrible decision. Awful. I might get fined for saying that, but so what?” NeedsYearsPersonsLongMightDecisionCollegeTerribleDegreesHundredAwfulFiftyNbaRefereeCollege Degree Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“My dad hasn't said much about his college days. Oh, a few times, he might start telling stories. And I've seen some highlight film of him from college. I remember thinking he looked really small. Which is funny, because growing up, I thought he was a pretty big guy.” ThinkingSaidStoriesBigsMightRememberFilmGuyGrowing UpGrowingCollegeDadMy DadNflHighlightsTelling StoriesBig GuysCollege Days Author:Andrew Luck
“Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.” PlayMightAbleRealizingActingCollegeProfessionBlundersLead In Author:Ed Asner
“Kids should go to college, but they should go to the best school they can afford to get through with minimal or no debt. That might mean going to a community college or an inexpensive local state school. Whatever it takes.” ShouldMeanStatesMightKidsSchoolCommunityCollegeDebtLocalsWhatever It TakesInexpensiveCommunity CollegeBest School Author:Mark Cuban
“Try and maybe write a couple of articles for your local paper. Perhaps you need to go to college to learn some things that might help you on the way. If you've got enthusiasm, determination and you love your sport - why shouldn't you be doing my job?” IfsWayNeedsWritingTryingHelpingMightJobsSportsLove YouCollegeCouplePaperDeterminationLocalsEnthusiasmArticles Author:Jill Douglas
“I never really thought comedy was a career option, just something I did for fun. Suddenly I realised I was getting paid which was a bonus. I studied for a diploma with the London College of Music, and teaching was something I thought I might do but comedy intervened.” MightFunCareersComedyTeachingCollegePaidLondonRealisedBonusDiploma Author:Bill Bailey
“Every Cuban has a house to live in, no matter how meager. That house is provided by government. Every Cuban who gets sick can go to a doctor or a hospital and get medical attention while 45 million Americans don't have medical insurance. Every Cuban can get education from the kindergarten through college and they don't have to pay. What is Castro doing that we might benefit from-if we are not too arrogant and falsely proud to see what he is doing in a small nation and what we have not been able to do or not been willing to do in the greatest nation on the earth?” IfsMatterGovernmentMightAbleEarthHouseNationsPayAttentionMillionsCollegeWillingProudBenefitsDoctorsSickMedicalHospitalsArrogantCubanKindergartenCastroSmall NationsMedical Insurance Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking.” PeopleHardMightSchoolCollegeHard WorkOrdinaryHigh School Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“A great teacher is not simply one who imparts knowledge to his students, but one who awakens their interest in it and makes them eager to pursue it for themselves. He is a spark plug, not a fuel pipe. The reason colleges exist is to bring students into contact with contagious personalities, for otherwise they might as well be correspondance schools.” WellsReasonMightSchoolInterestTeacherStudentsCollegePersonalityContactPursueFuelSparksPipeContagiousGreat TeacherImpartPlugs Author:Edmund Ware Sinnott
“If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.” IfsYearsMightCoursesClassClearWonderfulImpossibleCollegeComputerWindowMultipleLooking BackLooking ForwardDotsMacsTypographyConnecting The DotsStanford UniversityFontsCalligraphyDropping OutPersonal ComputersTypefaces Author:Steve Jobs
“I realized that once I graduated from college, there might be a period of time where people might typecast me or be more limiting, and I might not be able to play a crazy character. For me, it was important to do that at least in school.” PeopleImportantPlayCharacterMightAbleSchoolCrazyCollegePeriodsI Realized Author:Condola Rashad
“I think that what's happening today, with all the young poets rushing from one college to another, lecturing at the drop of a hat and so on, is not too good; I think it might have a bad effect on a great many of the young poets. They - to quote Mark Twain - "swap juices" a little too much, so that they are in danger of losing their own identity and don't give themselves time enough in which to work out what's really of importance to them - they're too busy.” ThinkingGivingLittlesEnoughMightTodayYoungToo MuchEffectsDangerIdentityCollegePoetLosingHappeningsImportanceMarkBusyWork OutGreat MenHatsJuiceToo BusyRushingLecturing Author:Conrad Aiken
“I would certainly make the attendance in college paid for, at least at a community college level or a state - you know, a sponsored university level so that if you wanted to go to college and if you had the grades - you might not go to Harvard - but you went to college.” IfsKnowsStatesMightWantedCommunityLevelsCollegePaidUniversityGradesHarvardAttendanceCommunity College Author:Mitch Albom
“In the Great Depression in which I grew up and remember vividly, unemployment was over 25 percent, and over 35 percent where I lived. A grown man would work all day, 16 hours, for a dollar. I remember hundreds of people walking by, people who had come down from the North just to get warm. They would come to our house as beggars even though they might have a college education. People didn't have money. They bartered; they'd trade eggs or pigs. It was just completely different.” PeopleMenDifferentMightRememberHouseHoursCollegeGrewWalkingGrew UpPercentTradeDollarsWarmEggsPigsUnemploymentBeggarGreat DepressionCollege EducationGrown Man Author:Jimmy Carter
“We've now got a group of young people in this country who for all practical purposes are American. They grew up here. They've gone to school here. They don't know anything other than being American kids. But their parents may have brought them here without all the proper paperwork - might have brought them here when they were three, might have brought them here when they were five. And so, lo and behold, by the time they finish school, and they're ready to go to college, they find out they can't go to college and, in fact, their status as Americans are threatened.” PeopleKnowsMayCountryFactsMightKidsSchoolYoungPurposeThreeParentGoneFiveGroupsCollegeReadyGrewGrew UpPracticalsThreatenedPaperwork Author:Barack Obama
“Everybody's got a worldview, whether they know they have it or they don't. They might even get it when they are little tiny kids. Suppose they get it when they are in college, which is often the case, or in high school, whatever. Everything they learn after that or every thing they see after that, they fit it into that worldview. And they are making coherence of what's good, what's bad, what will work, what won't work, what's noble, what's ignoble, and so on... all through this filter.” KnowsLittlesMightKidsSchoolCasesCollegeFitHigh SchoolNobleTinyWorldviewFiltersCoherenceIgnoble Author:Jane Jacobs