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. Votes: 3
In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics. Votes: 1
It was 1999, and we were building a way for college kids to create online profiles for the purpose of sharing... with employers. Oops. I vividly remember the moment I realized my company was going to fail. My co-founder and I were at our wits' end. By 2001, the dot-com bubble had burst, and we had spent all our money. Votes: 1
The purpose of a college education is to question your father's values, Votes: 0
The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible. Votes: 0
College is a refuge from hasty judgment. Votes: 5 Robert Frost
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. Votes: 6 Albert Schweitzer