“The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.”

“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.”

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”

“Pain's not bad. It's good. It teaches you things. Like when you put your hand in fire: Ow! You know not to do that again.”

“What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!”

“Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.”

“And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.”

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”

“Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks.”

“A good deal of education consists of unlearning — the breaking of bad habits, as with a tennis serve. This was emphatically true of a Vassar education: where other colleges aimed at development, bringing out what was already there like a seed waiting to sprout, Vassar remade a girl. Vassar was transformational.”