maturation

Graduates fared better if, during college, they did any one of these: developed a relationship with a mentor; took on a project that lasted a semester or more; did a job or internship directly connected to their chosen field; or became deeply involved in a campus organization or activity (as opposed to minimally involved in a range of things).

While my college had done an excellent job recruiting me, I had no road map for what I was supposed to do once I made it to campus.

Because children already have a realization of their weakness, is this not the best opportunity to apply the gospel to their hearts?

when you__e the first in your family to go to college, you never truly feel like they__e let you go.

Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists.

Resilience is rooted in habits we can cultivate and change.

One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, "At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed.

A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian.

College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.

More depended on the student than on the school.

Oxford in the Inklings' day was not so different in look and smell from the Oxford of today. Then, as now, one was tempted to fantasize one's surroundings as a Camelot of intellectual knight-errantry or an Eden of serene contemplation. Then, as now, there was bound to be disappointment.

She was too well-trained to panic.

The Mother Thing makes our world.

Jefferson was the rare student who came to college already knowing that there could be joy in studying.

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.

The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.

They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances.