Quotes About Education

People think that athletes have it great, and we do in a lot of regard, but universities make a hell of a lot of money off of players. You don't get a free education: you work full-time year round for five years for an education you could pay for three times over if you just got your market value.

My husband is a graduate of two Ivy League universities - with a degree in Classics! - and he sounds like a David Mamet character when I hear him on a business call.

Kim Il Sung University should set an example for all other universities of the country to follow in introducing innovative teaching methods.

The more money Washington puts into the hands of students only enables the colleges and universities to continue propping up the price of education.

I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed.

We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.

My children were educated in what were then Chinese schools, and they learned English as a subject. But they made up when they went to English-language universities. So they didn't lose out. They had a basic set of traditional Confucian values. Not my grandchildren.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.

People like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been very busy educating America about just how much socialism we have, from Social Security to Medicare to public schools to public universities, and how much we love that. The truth is that there is no pure socialist or capitalist economy on earth.

I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.

Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education.

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

Universities are basically socialist institutions.

I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be journalists. I've never been entirely certain that anyone can be trained to be a novelist in the same way.

Certainly the multicultural activists in the Labour party and the universities wanted to destroy the old white Anglo-Saxon education system as they saw it, and produce something completely different - with no conception of what that completely different thing would be, of course.

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

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.

Passing on a full scholarship to MIT would be irrational for me, but to my father and his parents, what would have been the point of spending five years at one of the world's most prestigious universities if he just ended up back on the farm?

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

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.