Caroline Bird > Quotes

“Of all the forms in which ideas are disseminated, the college professor lecturing his class is the slowest and the most expensive. You don't have to go to college to learn about the great ideas of Western man. If you want to learn about Milton, or Camus, or even Margaret Mead, you can find them. In paperback. In the library.”
― Caroline Bird, The case against college

“You don't grow old, you become old by not growing.”
― Caroline Bird, Lives of Our Own: Secrets of Salty Old Women