Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

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

I needed to go to college. I needed to mature.

Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.

I could have probably been just as successful by not going to college, but it was the most intellectually stimulating environment that I was ever in.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

I came to the Steelers after four years of high school and four years of college, and now I look on my stay here as 13 years of postgraduate work; I think I'm ready for the world.

I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.

As far as I can see, about the only thing I've missed is a college education.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

You know how when you get older you actually want to learn? When I went to college, I wasn't as interested in the art history classes as I am now.

In some ways I've gone to Cash and Carter graduate school.

I was told that my going to college wouldn't be good for my career. I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower yourself by cutting yourself off from this business every once in a while.

Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.

College is something you complete. Life is something you experience.

The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.

The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.

The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.

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

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.

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

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

My university work was not central to my education.

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.