'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. - (Congreve, William - Colleges and Universities)

A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself. - (Ehrlich, Thomas - Colleges and Universities)

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. - (Roosevelt, Theodore - Colleges and Universities)

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. - (Ciardi, John - Colleges and Universities)

American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone. - (Paglia, Camille - Colleges and Universities)

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both. - (Plath, Sylvia - Colleges and Universities)

College isn't the place to go for ideas. - (Keller, Helen - Colleges and Universities)

College-bred is a four-year loaf, using dad's dough, Coming out half-baked, with a lot of crust. - (Unknown, Source - Colleges and Universities)

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. - (Ingersoll, Robert Green - Colleges and Universities)

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! - (Arnold, Matthew - Colleges and Universities)

I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it. - (Vries, Peter De - Colleges and Universities)

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum. - (Maugham, W. Somerset - Colleges and Universities)

I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them -- the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings. - (Merton, Thomas - Colleges and Universities)

I had always imagined that Clich? was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford. - (Guedalla, Philip - Colleges and Universities)

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford. - (Halifax, Edward F. - Colleges and Universities)