Elbert Hubbard - College Quotes

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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

Elbert Hubbard

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

Elbert Hubbard

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth. The intellectual kings of the earth have seldom been college-bred.

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The point I wish to make is this: McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter & did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing — "Carry a message to Garcia!"

Elbert Hubbard

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

Elbert Hubbard