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colleges
«Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them»
Author: George Lorimer
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«If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow.»
Author: William Allen White
(Journalist)
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attack, breed, campus, campuses, college, colleges, Colleges and universities, come on, rebel, riot, rioting, riots, universities, vigor, vim, youthful
«...colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets is each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness...»
Author: Jack Kerouac
(Novelist, Poet)
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campus, campuses, colleges, groom, groomed, grooming, grooms, houses, identity, lawns, living room, outskirts, prowl, prowling, prowls, rooming house, rows, schools, sets, television set, the Wilderness, well-to-do, wilderness
«If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.»
«But human bodies are sic fools, For a' their colleges and schools, That when nae real ills perplex them, They make enow themsel's to vex them»
«Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.»
«Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.»
«DO not preach; practice. In politics, in the field of administration, in schools and colleges, in spiritual institutions, everywhere, we have a surfeit of preachers but a famine of practitioners.»
«Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between [people], and their beliefs -- in religion, literature, colleges and schools -- democracy in all public and private life....»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
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colleges, elections, interaction, interactions, pass on, private life, private school