“Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with shape and vision. Liberal Arts is the best movie about college I’ve seen since I don’t know what...Dryly affectionate and super-sharp. Elizabeth Olsen is every inch a star.” ThinkingKnowsArtStillsActorsStarsVisionKnow HowComedyCollegeShapesDirectorsArt IsInchesAffectionateJoshLiberal ArtsRare Things Author:Owen Gleiberman
“Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.” MenAgeEducationVisionForeverSkyMiddleCollegeFairsIdealsUniversityCornersMythDecadesWanderSmokeVainPreservesRepublicLooking BackCharmingHonorableMiddle AgesGraciousElusiveMeadowsAmerican LifeLarksPrincetonColleges And Universities Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I don't really date. I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college. I've always thought that's what it's supposed to be like, and if it's not, then I don't want to waste my time on it. Even when I was 14, I was like, 'I'm not gonna marry this person. What's the point of doing it?' It's not me being naive. I just know what it's supposed to be like, and I think until I feel that, I cannot be bothered.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantFeelsPersonsParentKnownVisionCollegeWasteMarriedSupposed To BeMy TimeGradesNaiveBotheredWasting My Time Author:Dakota Fanning
“When I was little, I wanted to be a mother, because that's who I saw. I saw my mom caring for me. I didn't play doctor. I didn't play lawyer. I didn't have those visions until I was in college, meeting people who were doing those things. That's why we're trying to encourage moms, teachers, fathers, to be that presence in their children's lives, in their communities, because it really makes a difference.” PeopleTryingChildrenLittlesPlayWantedMotherFatherCommunityDifferencesVisionSawsTeacherCollegeMomDoctorsMeetingsMy MomCaringLawyerMaking A DifferenceBeing A Father Author:Michelle Obama
“These weren't college kids on acid. They were preachers, and bankers, and farmers, and the salt of American society subscribing to ideas that now seem so wild to us. These people had the most radical visions of what the future could be. And this was happening in an era we don't typically associate with sexual experimentation, or communism, or things like that.” PeopleIdeasSeemsKidsVisionCollegeHappeningsRadicalCommunismErasFarmersSaltPreacherAssociatesBankersAcidExperimentationAmerican Society Author:Christine Jennings
“I'm not saying that you shouldn't go to college or you shouldn't finish your degree, but sometimes people have a very clear vision about what they want to do, and they just want to get on with it.” PeopleWantSometimesVisionClearCollegeDegreesClear Vision Author:Phil Keoghan
“In part, it's almost surely a failure of modern education, whether K through 12 or higher education, or really both. Barack Obama went to Ivy League institutions like Columbia, which are reputed to be among America's top colleges. And yet, this very recent product of those American institutions is not publicly articulating an appreciation of the American founding or the founders and their vision for America.” AmericaVisionModernCollegeProductsHigherInstitutionsAppreciationBarackLeagueFoundersFoundingIvyHigher EducationColumbiaIvy LeagueArticulatingModern Education Author:Paul Kengor
“By college, I had a really grand, preposterous vision of myself as becoming a writer, but I don't think I had the discipline or the patience - or the ability or the humility. It took 20 years to acquire those things.” ThinkingYearsAbilityVisionHumilityCollegeBecomingDisciplineAcquire Author:Nguyen Viet Thang