College Education Quotes

“School exams are memory tests, in real-world no one is going to stop you from referring a book to solve a problem.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Life gives us experiences for personal development. Appreciate the lessons and be a learner.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Self learner; reading.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“How could we love books more than money? This is the state of book lovers.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“As employees, executives and entrepreneurs — let’s stay humble.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, 4 Business Lessons From Jesus: A businessmans interpretation of Jesus' teachings, applied in a business context.

“Lover of books, lover of knowledge.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Life is learning process. We must keep learning.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“So many books to read, will I ever finish reading?”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Read good books to improve yourself.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Education is the key to self-development and empowerment”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“The world of books is my fantasy.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Keep learning, keep learning!”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“The different shades of colours present cultural diversity.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“It is easy to give up than to endure. Always choose the latter.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“What you read at Columbia is Plato's Republic and Homer's Iliad. What you learn at Columbia is that reading isn't education. Education is figuring out the hard way that at a school like Columbia, what you read isn't nearly as important as what you wear, how you look, and how much you know about sucking up to professors who really couldn't give a shit about whether some nameless, faceless kid in the 23rd row will work or starve after graduation.”
― Ted Rall, The Year of Loving Dangerously

“Education changes lives and scholarships make it affordable.”
― Shay Spivey, How to Submit a Winning Scholarship Application Secret Techniques I Used to Win $100,000 in College Scholarships

“Daily reading is a sacred knowledge.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“We are capable of learning.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“The pursuit of our dreams is not without any difficulty. Those who triumph have learn’t to overcome the difficulty.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Everybody must be given the opportunity for self liberation and development.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“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.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

“Universities are reluctant to update their syllabus as per industry requirement, not because their students will have to take the trouble to learn new things but because their professors will have to take the trouble to teach new things.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Academics and Alcohol was the balance for living life as a college student.”
― Basimah Rasha, The Epitome Of Truth

“A university cannot make an imbecile less of a fool, neither can it make a warped mind straight; it is supposed to be a laboratory for the inquisitive mind so that he or she can take advantage of its academic resources. - On Academic Learning”
― Lamine Pearlheart, Walking the Soul

“A man who learned to expect the
unexpected, make the most of every circumstance, and most importantly, that you cannot just live
life; you must share insights acquire from the life you have lived.”
― Carlos Wallace, Life is not Complicated, You Are

“Class is a waste if you didn’t get anything out of it. So, instead of trying to remember everything in your notebook down to the smallest comma, recognize the larger insight your class circled around.”
― Joel B. Randall, Study, Sleep, Repeat: 130 Tips to Schedule Your College Life

“Going to college without putting your heart into it is like setting the microwave for thirty minutes and forgetting to put food in—you use all the same energy with none of the results.”
― Joel B. Randall, Study, Sleep, Repeat: 130 Tips to Schedule Your College Life

“Time management’s chief mission is first to turn your twenty-four hours into something to show for them, not to turn twenty-four hours into twenty-five.”
― Joel B. Randall, Study, Sleep, Repeat: 130 Tips to Schedule Your College Life

“She held a B.A. in English literature, which was of only slightly more interest to employers than his own Ph.D. in linguistics—that is to say, none whatsoever.”
― Cliff Jones Jr., Dreck