The best that any education can do is to add understanding of the past and present, to gird one for the future, to sharpen the intelligence, to enable one to evaluate whatever comes along, to listen, to learn, to question, to be interested in what is going on, to be involved, to believe “this concerns me, ” above all to keep the mind alive. This is what I believe Scott Fitzgerald did for me in his College of One. Sheilah Graham
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Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist of the 20th century who was best known for his novel The Great Gatsby. In the quote above, he shared that education and learning did not just teach you information and facts, but they also taught you how to live and how to grow.

Source: College Of One

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