{"quotes":[{"text":"College stirred in her a certain contempt for virtues like kindness and persistence. She would have appeared to have been a kind and persistent person herself, but a steady diet of Antonioni films and an introductory course on existentialism had awakened her to the fact that she wanted more.","author":"Garth Risk Hallberg","tags":["city-on-fire","college","garth-risk-hallberg","humor"],"id":1100,"author_id":"Garth+Risk+Hallberg"},{"text":"This was one of those non-glamorous parts about college that people never tell you about - worrying that the dilapidated apartment hosting a party would fall apart with you in it.","author":"Alyssa Rose Ivy","tags":["college","funny-as-hell"],"id":1927,"author_id":"Alyssa+Rose+Ivy"},{"text":"Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.","author":"Kate Klise","tags":["friends","parents","college "],"id":2194,"author_id":"Kate+Klise"},{"text":"Before I had decided to get into politics, I was laying the groundwork to have a career in the law, but that was really to lay the foundation to teach, either at the college level or law school level after my federal clerkships.","author":"Stephanie Herseth","tags":["school","law","college "],"id":2689,"author_id":"Stephanie+Herseth"},{"text":"Campuses are bubbles, artificial environments that insulate students from the life of the competitive marketplace. The more exact truth is that our campuses offer students the privileges of liberty without the corresponding responsibilities.","author":"Peter Augustine Lawler","tags":["college","higher-education","maturation"],"id":2822,"author_id":"Peter+Augustine+Lawler"},{"text":"One day I said to my dad, 'Are you disappointed that I'm working a minimum-wage job and I didn't go to college?' I'll never forget his response. He said, 'It's not about how much money you make or what your job is, but it's more about your character. For that, I'm proud of you.'.","author":"Josh Dun","tags":["day","character","college "],"id":3596,"author_id":"Josh+Dun"},{"text":"At this very moment with my girl in my arms, I feel like there’s nothing I can’t do for her, for us. — Duke.","author":"Stephanie Witter","tags":["college","college-romance","contemporary","contemporary-romance","duke-ashdown","fix-up","new-adult","patch-up-series","romance"],"id":3703,"author_id":"Stephanie+Witter"},{"text":"The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expense of it,' [John] Adams wrote. 'There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.' Jefferson's fear was that without such a system of public education, the country would end up being ruled by a privileged elite that would recycle itself through a network of private institutions that entrenched their advantage.","author":"Fareed Zakaria","tags":["college","education","founding-fathers","liberal-arts"],"id":4216,"author_id":"Fareed+Zakaria"},{"text":"Schools and universities are (as in a body) the noble and vital parts, which being vigorous and sound send good blood and active spirits into the veins and arteries, which cause health and strength; or, if feeble or ill-affected, corrupt all the vital parts; whereupon grow diseases, and in the end, death itself.","author":"Thomas Hughes","tags":["college","higher-education","noblesse-oblige","patriotism"],"id":4353,"author_id":"Thomas+Hughes"},{"text":"Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.","author":"Anonymous","tags":["college"],"id":4802,"author_id":"Anonymous"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":781,"pages":79,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}