許多年輕人開始認真把大學教育當回事的時候，他們已經畢業了。 

教授對剛入學的大一新生說:「假如，你們只要付低廉的入場費，就可以進到一家百貨公司，並且鑽石、寶石、手錶、體育用品及一切昂貴的衣物等，愛拿什麼就拿什麼； 只有一個條件 – 以自己拿得走的為限。」只有傻瓜會說:「我只要拿幾個紙夾和一根鞋帶」吧? 

想想許多年輕學生交了大把的學費，學校允許你盡己所能，吸收古往今來累積的智慧，熟悉各個時代的天才，及宇宙間的知識。許多學生卻說:「我可只想修點輕鬆的課，必要時弄個小抄，考試別被當就好了。」 

富蘭克森瓊斯 (Franklin P. Jones，1887-1929),

US Businessman. President, CEO of American Management Assoc.

College

By the time lots of young men begin thinking seriously of a college education, they are graduates.

“”Suppose,” said the professor to the incoming freshmen, “”that by paying a modest sum, you could get a permit to go into the largest store and help yourself to everything – diamonds, precious stones, watches, sporting goods, expensive clothing – the only limit being what you could carry away.  Only a fool would say, “Guess I’ll take a paper of pins and a string.”  

Consider the imbecility of the young who pays for a college education which entitles him, to the limit of his capacity, to absorb the accumulated wisdom of the ages, to intimate acquaintance with the geniuses of all time, to acknowledge of the universe; and who then says, “Guess I’ll take a snap course, ride a pony over the hard place, and be xontent to keep an eyelash above the flunking point.” 

- 摘錄自 「珠璣語」p.44,黃文範譯 爾雅出版社