Sonya Hartnett Quotes

My college experience was like everyone else's. I learned a lot. I gained a new perspective on the world and on people that I'm so thankful and appreciative for.

I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

It is in college that one gathers confidence as the mind is open to ideologies.

College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.

I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.

That's what university life is all about. Challenging, questioning, enjoying good people and good friends, and pushing yourself to the limit.

I am very proud of my three years there, of having decided to go to Manchester first - at 17, it was the perfect time for me to leave home because it helped make me as a person.

Going to university is, and should be, so much more than a mechanical process of grinding out a degree qualification for a pre-determined career path.

One of my main reasons for going to college is to try to get a liberal arts background.

College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

I was really young when I was working on 'Freaks and Geeks.' In a lot of ways, that was the experience that informed a lot of what I've become, and I feel like every experience I have is in some way or another an extension of something that started there.

In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.

I just want to be educated.

When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

I feel lucky in that I don't really have to go to college to study something job-specific. I just want to go to learn about what is interesting to me and learn about the classes that you don't really get to take in high school because you have to take the basics.

Class I to XII wasn't much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics with theatre or psychology with science fiction, I got a whole new world view.