“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”
Albert Einstein
“It is odd that 'sword' and 'words' have the same letters and even more strange that they have the same effect.”
Brandi Keeler
“All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.1908, notebook”
Mark Twain
“What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.”
“The rationale was in order to take advantage of technology and provide greater flexibility for institutions to contact prospective student athletes. On the flip side of things, for the prospects' well-being, they can choose to respond or not.”
Crissy Schluep
“The bigger question is, ?Why shouldn't I go?' It's such a highly-rated institution. It's superior to so many institutions. They have such a great sense of honor and tradition. I think that's why I wanted to go there the most.”
Myles Butler
