{"quotes":[{"text":"Everybody must be given the opportunity for self liberation and development.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["africa","college-education","development","education","educational-philosophy","inspirational","leadership","liberation","opportunities-in-life","self-awareness","self-help","self-improvement"],"id":23467,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Having a college degree does not make you educated. Always learning new things is what makes you educated.","author":"Dan Pearce","tags":["college-education","educating-yourself","learning"],"id":70349,"author_id":"Dan+Pearce"},{"text":"Lover of books, lover of knowledge.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["book","book-lovers","book","books-reading","bookstores","bookworm","college-education","college-life","educational","educational-philosophy","educational","knowledge-education","knowledge-wisdom","reading-books","reading-for-life","reading-habits","reading-motivation","reading","reading-thinking","university","wisdom-inspirational","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":75192,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"My expectations from the university were perhaps too idealistic. I had dreams of learning things about innovation and discovery in the field of technology, but all of it hit the ground hard, when I faced with the pathetic reality of the so-called higher education system. To my surprise, I found myself stuck behind the walls of meaningless facts, figures and rankings. It occurred to me that, it was not actually a place for education, rather it was a place where you go to get your head filled with useless undigested information, that you’d probably never use throughout your entire life. It was not education, and moreover, it was definitely not science.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","college-education","education","education-system","educational-philosophy","educational-system","life-lessons","philosophy","philosophy","university-of-life"],"id":93434,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"College is a different scene than it was ten years ago. It used to be all about sex and drugs. Now it’s all about texting and fast food.","author":"Aaron B. 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