Quotes About Knowledge

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

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

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

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.

Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities.

The U.S. is the biggest investor in research and development in the world. It has the best universities. Keeping them supplied with the best talent is essential.

Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.

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.

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.

Campuses of best universities of the world will be set up in Knowledge Park.

Public universities are the lifeblood of modern democracies.

I think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life.

Once universities, rather than religious orders, were established as the key repositories of learning, women would find it ever harder to prove the pen as mighty as the sword.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Were I not a king, I would be a university man.

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

If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.

My parents didn't go to university and weren't brought up in England. They hadn't heard of any other universities other than 'Cambridge' or 'Oxford.'

Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world.

You don't say to a university professor who is immersed in a particular subject that they should get a life. They are encouraged to enjoy their subject and to pass it on.

Well... I graduated from the business school of Northumberland University in Newcastle.

I have a B.S. in Biology from MIT, an M.Sc. in Human Biology and a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Oxford University, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. I never intended for so many degrees, but I enjoyed getting them all.