Quotes About Education

We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.

Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.

One thing is for sure: most of the people admitting candidates to universities for technical subjects are pretty dissatisfied with the level of math education.

Foreign universities have two aspects - content and brand. If we focus on the brand, we could lose out on the content. The idea is to focus on the content.

I think universities are trying to figure out how we could use what we know about learning to change our education system, but it is sort of funny that they don't necessarily seem to be consulting the people who are sitting right there on campus.

Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they've purchased. Failure doesn't enter into anyone's calculations.

I had a difficult time getting my arms around Einstein's work, even when I was a physics major at one of the top universities in India.

Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

I've spent a good deal of time in the Middle East over the years, lecturing at universities in places like Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and Morocco.

In the universities, we teach you what we decide you need to know. And the employers find out when they hire people that students didn't learn what we needed them to learn. Online learning offerings, like the University of Phoenix, have relationships with employers and teach what you need to know.

The universities of the 21st century are going to be the smokestacks of the century.

Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?

As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel.

The fact that I spent my life in universities in a manner that I no longer have close identification with bricklayers is a pain to me.

Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe.

More than 13,000 Malaysians travel to the U.K. to study in British universities every year.

Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind.

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.

When universities are forced to recruit more and more from outwith Scotland just to balance the books, it is inevitable that doors are being slammed shut on some of our brightest talent.

Students who have spent their childhood here in Florida deserve to qualify for the same in-state tuition rate at universities their peers and classmates do.

When I was growing up, our nation was partitioned: Blacks were segregated by law in the South and largely by custom in the North, though it, too, had segregation laws. Our best universities had quota systems. Many white communities had real estate covenants to keep nonwhites out.

American colleges are now increasingly reflexive in maintaining politically correct dialogue over controversy, and some say universities have lost sight of education's ultimate purpose.

I went to Dunbar High School, recognized as the best high school of the segregated era. The education enabled students from Dunbar to attend the best colleges and universities in the country.