“Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed...” — Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth.

There are so many societies, so many churches, so many -isms, that it is almost impossible for an independent man to succeed in a political career.

Kids seem to get me when I play colleges - they like it because I go after them. They'll come up after and say I am like their dads, only funny.

Overhead costs are far too high, state support is dropping, and college tuition is far too expensive. Colleges are pricing themselves out of existence.

I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.

I feel it has become increasingly competitive. There are some insane cut-offs to get into a lot of colleges.