#colleges

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#genius #home-schooling #humor #school #humor

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects. ↗

— Jack L. Chalker

#been #college #colleges #fiction #health

Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#ahead #america #college #college education #colleges

The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it. ↗

— Dean Smith

#college #colleges #courage #forward #get

Ah college years, those were the days. Pure freedom ... leaving home for the first time…the parties…” "What about the tutorials, the lectures, the large building with all the books called the ‘library’?” “Is that what those were?” Gerry blithely replied. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#college #colleges #funny #humor #humour

We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#changed #colleges #expanded #formula #funding

And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#around #aside #big #colleges #gas

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#art #artists #before #collaborated #colleges

We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#colleges #dollars #education #few #fits

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability. ↗

— Barack Obama

#colleges #community #economy #employment #lifetime