F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Education Quotes, College Quotes

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.

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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

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There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

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The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

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In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite.

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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

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The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.

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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

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Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.

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All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

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Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

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An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

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Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.

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What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

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Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness.

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