Quotes About Universities

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

The agriculture ministry has to see that their good research percolates down to the fields through the state agricultural departments and the 70-odd state agricultural universities.

I believe that the future is determined by the great public universities. They educate 80 percent of the students and make the American Dream available.

Cultivating more leaders who reflect our heterogeneous society depends on universities' transparent use of race as one of many factors in an admissions process that is accessible to all.

The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life.

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

Since universities are funded in large parts by grants that depend on costly research, they have every incentive to free professors from their teaching duties as much as possible - as do the professors themselves, who tend to be recruited and promoted primarily based on research output.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

This is why universities, and civil society more generally, are so important for a democracy like ours, founded on a genuine idealism that we have a hard time holding on to. They provide a space to question whatever we are doing in the name of things we say we believe in or might believe in.

American universities have never considered academic merit the sole criterion for admittance.

We try to preach innovation. We provide resources; we invite speakers in from universities to talk about new ideas.

Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.

Students want free education because their parents are struggling. The fees of universities and technikons are too high.

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.

You as an individual coach have a responsibility to try to give those players who put themselves at risk and in harm's way a chance to achieve success, and that goes for universities and professional teams, as well.

Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

Now that we've discovered how to actually develop policies and projects holistically, if we can get the barriers out of the way and release the creativity that's in our universities, our farming organizations, amongst our farmers and land managers, we'll be astounded. As I'd like to express it, the human spirit will fly.

By 1988, I'm seeing this commercial phenomenon beginning to show up. Hardware makers are selling routers to universities so they can build up their campus networks. So I remember thinking, 'Well, how are we going to get this in the hands of the general public?' There were no public Internet services at that point.

I didn't want to go into the papal bureaucracy, so I thought of doing a postdoctoral thesis, which they call a 'Habilitation' in German universities, on alchemy in the work of Albert the Great.

Although a number of network security programs are already emerging in colleges and universities, security is a field that benefits from hands-on experience in real-world situations.

If Tony Blair really wants to see a higher education sector that is thriving and growing then he should be releasing universities from the shackles of government control.

I had this really intense resolve. I would call universities and community colleges and say, 'I really want to go to college. How do I get to college? What do I do?' And they would say, 'You have to get an application. You have to get letters of recommendation.' It was terrifying. I had no idea what I was doing.

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.