“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
“College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.” PeopleTwoBookReadingMistakeCollegeHundredObvious Book:M: Writings ’67–’72 Source: M: Writings ’67–’72
“If you just don't have any idea what you want to do, the worst thing you can do is go to law school. If you can go to college, maybe it's fine to have four years of fun and learn a little bit, that's okay, but if you have to go two hundred thousand dollars in debt, that's not something I would recommend.” IfsWantYearsLittlesTwoIdeasSchoolLawFunBitsCan DoFourWorstCollegeFineThousandLittle BitHundredOkayDollarsDebtWhat You WantFour YearsWorst ThingsLaw School Author:Tucker Max
“If you believe you have a just cause, an important message, or a key contribution to make, you will be just as innovative as a college freshman desperate to see his girlfriend six hundred miles away. You will get there any way you can.” IfsWayBelieveImportantCausesCollegeKeysSixMessagesHundredMilesGirlfriendContributionDesperateInnovativeIf You BelieveMiles AwayFreshmanCollege Freshmen Book:Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership Source: Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership
“At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky pedagogues, I was at large in a wicked seaport of half a million people, with a front seat at every public show, as free of the night as of day, and getting earfuls of instruction in a hundred giddy arcana, none of them taught in schools.... [But] if I neglected the humanities, I was meanwhile laying in all the worldly wisdom of a police lieutenant, a bartender, a shyster lawyer, or a midwife.” PeopleIfsShowsSchoolNightHumanityEducationHalfMillionsGenerationsFrontsTaughtCollegeHundredPoliceLawyerSeatsWickedInstructionOppressedWorldlyNeglectedRespectableBourgeoisMy GenerationYoungstersFreshmanBartenderGiddyMidwifeLieutenantsSophomoreWorldly WisdomCollege Freshmen Author:H. L. Mencken
“On the river path in Boston beauty was most expressed as youth and intelligence. That made sense; sixty degree-giving institutions, some three hundred thousand students; that meant at least one hundred fifty thousand more nubile young women than demographics would ordinarily suggest. Maybe that was why young men stayed in Boston when their college years were over, maybe that explained why they were so intellectually hyperactive, so frustrated, so alcoholic, such terrible drivers.” MenGivingYearsMadeYoungThreePathYouthStudentsCollegeTerribleThousandDegreesHundredRiversInstitutionsYoung ManFiftyDriversSixtyFrustratedYoung WomenBostonAlcoholicsDemographicsCollege Years Author:Kim Stanley Robinson
“Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree.” PayStudentsCollegeMonthsCostDegreesLowsHundredDollarsOnlinePace Author:Dan Rather