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“The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least from the standpoint of education”

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Author:Samuel Blumenfeld

“About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.”

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Author:E. W. Howe

“To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.”

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Author:Joseph Joubert

“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.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.”

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Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.”

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Author:Arthur Brisbane

“Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must return from Washington after 24 months.”

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Author:Malcolm Forbes

“Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation.”

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Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams

“It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.”

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Book:Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism

Source: Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

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Author:Derek Bok