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“Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge, Fresh from St. Andrew's College, Should nail the conscious needle to the north?”

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Author:Thomas Hood

“A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.”

Has Beens Soul College Solitude Cells Shut Up Rust Mould Hermits

Book:The Improvement of the Mind: To which are Added a Discourse on the Education of Children and Youth; and Short Essays on Various Subjects

Source: The Improvement of the Mind: To which are Added a Discourse on the Education of Children and Youth; and Short Essays on Various Subjects

“...a college education feeds an adolescent in one end and gets a young adult out the other. In the process of those four years that person has changed significantly, and you and I have been agents of that change.....what happens, in the course of what we do, is soul making.”

Years Persons Has Beens Soul Ends Happens Young Courses Process Four Teaching Changed College Adults Young Adult Agents Four Years College Education

Author:Leroy S Rouner

“There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.”

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Author:Woody Hayes

“Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too scrambled, to admit to ourselves that our black pride remained incomplete. And to admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred - for there seemed no reason to expect that whites would look at our private struggles as a mirror into their own souls, rather than yet more evidence of black pathology.”

“Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.”

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Author:Louis Kahn