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Quotes About Learning

Universities are not places where police can come and arrest people. Let the children have a discourse as they want to. They will learn as they move on in life. But to target individuals and institutions is dangerous.
~ Kapil Sibal
More than 13,000 Malaysians travel to the U.K. to study in British universities every year.
~ Najib Razak
Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind.
~ John Ortberg
We have to get back to universities being more focused on education and more connected on what they educate students for to the jobs that actually exist.
~ Bill Foster
The ancient universities was not as based on how many credit hours you're taking and whether you've completed your credit hours. The ancient universities were much more interested in customized, personalized learning... Where you have a mentor and where you're learning at your own pace.
~ Sal Khan
Education was a big focus for me, before the show and during the show. I applied to four or five colleges and universities and got into three and was planning on going.
~ Justine Bateman
People study and play sports side by side. So, most of the talent exists in schools and universities.
~ Dutee Chand
A lot of people went to posh universities, but I left at 17 to work for three years at Frank Newton's Gentleman's Outfitters in Shrewsbury, where I gained a professional qualification in how to measure a suit.
~ Christopher Timothy
We want to encourage foreign students to come to our universities - to study, research and teach.
~ Ed Davey
I think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life.
~ Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas.
~ Roger Clemens
Were I not a king, I would be a university man.
~ King James I
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
~ Anton Chekhov
I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.
~ Terry Pratchett
I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and that led on to my Ph.D. and eventual employment.
~ Alastair Reynolds
War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.
~ Paul Virilio
Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.
~ Charles Kennedy
Before I left for American University, my mother told me to sign up for everything I could: to take advantage of everything from on-campus lectures to sports and social events to the amazing D.C. culture.
~ Jesse Itzler
I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world.
~ Clifford Geertz
I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.
~ Kevin Kline
I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.
~ Charles Kennedy
Life is a university, and you never graduate. Accept that whatever happens to you, no matter how terrible, is there to teach you. Your job is to learn and do what you have to.
~ Srikumar Rao
The professors - working steadily and systematically - have destroyed the university as a center of learning and have desolated higher education, which no longer is higher or much of an education.
~ Charlie Sykes