Top 40 College Education Quotes

Words matter. These are the best College Education Quotes from famous people such as Dennis Prager, William James, Michael Moore, Alex Trebek, Bo Jackson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it’s very complex, it’s very profound.
Dennis Prager
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
William James
People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or next to nothing. At the most, you had to work at Dairy Queen during the summer and that would pay for your college education.
Michael Moore
Originally, I think, I wanted to be an actor. But I got into broadcasting by accident, if you will, because I needed money to pay for my college education. I applied for a summer announcing job at a couple of radio stations.
Alex Trebek
If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
Bo Jackson
College education teaches you humility.
Suhasini Maniratnam
Income inequality has made having kids, much like getting a quality college education, a rich person’s privilege.
Ana Kasparian
I went to – I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years, I accumulated a lot of knowledge, but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.
John Lithgow
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
Al Pacino
We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.
Suze Orman
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Brooks Atkinson
It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn’t want to stay on the farm. It didn’t offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.
Clyde Tombaugh
The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.
Derek Bok
Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty significantly. People with college degrees are more likely to go to church than people without college degrees among the white working class.
J. D. Vance
Whatever earnings I got from winning this silver medal, part will be used for my college education.
Hidilyn Diaz
We need to deal with helping middle-class kids get a college education.
Sherrod Brown
People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don’t have a college education, you don’t usually hear from us.
Michael Moore
So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.
Gordon Gee
College education is the great Filipino dream. But in a world of rapid technological change, getting a job or keeping it depends as much on how well one reasons as how well one uses his hands.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
I have no college education; I taught myself how to write. If you want it badly enough, you can have it. You can walk into any room and convince the person that you know what you’re doing.
Erin Foster
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
It’s one thing to skip class to play poker, but if I’m learning how to think in the real world playing poker, then maybe that’s more valuable than a college education could’ve been.
James Holzhauer
Could today’s construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That’s what we’re fighting about.
Xavier Becerra
This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates – is they just keeping giving back.
Michael N. Castle
In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
Walter Annenberg
Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.
Jane Fonda
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.
Bill Vaughan
The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one’s children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.
Leonard Boswell
College costs continue to rise, and student loan debt threatens to price many Americans out of a college education and out of the middle class.
Dianne Feinstein
I work with kids every day, and I preach to them how much more they make and how much easier it is to get a job when they get a college education.
John Layfield
Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.
Orison Swett Marden
Middle class families are struggling to send their sons

Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.
Albio Sires
The DREAMers who are in my state are some of the most ambitious, creative, going to be productive businesspeople and doctors. That’s why I’m proud of being the first governor to make sure the DREAMers get access to college education.
Jay Inslee
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Theodore Roosevelt
Instead of saving for someone else’s college education, I’m currently saving for a luxury retirement community replete with golf carts and handsome young male nurses who love butterscotch.
Jen Kirkman
If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.
John Malkovich
My parents’ greatest wish was that I graduated from college. Neither of my parents had a college education, and they really wanted me to have one.
Linda McMahon
The Clinton strength was to play to people without a college education. High school people. That’s how you win elections.
Steve Bannon
Liberals tend to stress how marvelous education is, in and of itself, and also adore it as a vessel for genuine equality. (That’s me, by the way: Hell, I think we should be spending $50 billion a year to make college education free).
Rick Perlstein
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain