One half who graduate from college never read another book.

Attributed to the British historian G. M. Trevelyan, the remark is a sardonic comment on the limits of formal education. It suggests that graduation can mark an end rather than a beginning of intellectual life: many people treat college reading as a requirement to be completed, not a habit to be sustained. The line also implies a critique of credentialism—earning a degree without cultivating curiosity or a continuing relationship with books. Whether literally true or not, its force lies in the warning that education’s value depends on lifelong engagement with ideas, not merely the completion of a course of study.