I think college is an absolute. In this world you have to learn how to learn and get in the habit of always wanting to learn. Some kids have that out of high school and may be able to do the college equivalent of home schooling. Most kids can't. So I highly recommend going to college.
Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work.
Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!
[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure.
They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.
I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school, or steal my Daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool.
She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.
Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?
