University Quotes

For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and r...

...I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in...

Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They hav...

Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the lo...

One cannot get rid of a good education, nor, unfortunately, of a bad one, which often is such becaus...

Most of us are pseudo-scholars...for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Chur...

The grass is full of ghosts tonight.' 'The whole campus is alive with them.' They paused by Little a...

Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others...

All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good m...

A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising th...

Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delig...

I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more cre...

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

..it lay in the true function of the university to promote that interplay of view, that discussion a...

What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to...

I am much afraid that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligen...

Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long va...

The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was ...

When spontaneity and individuality and really good original stuff occurred in a classroom it was in ...

It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays...

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained ...

lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you w...

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But ...

What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Ma...

When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called hu...

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of ...

As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children ('as much as th...

When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfu...

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the p...