Quotes About University

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.

A university is a city of ideas, and we're grateful you became citizens of our city.

Where do you find a stomach on a Thursday afternoon in Reno? Chinatown? suggests someone. Costco? Butcher Boys. Tracy pulls his phone from a pocket. Hello, I'm from the university - the catchall preamble for unorthodox inquiries.

Most of them students from the nearby University of Dayton...

The traditional university will surely be gone in fifty years, swept away by technology.

The traditional university will surely be gone in fifty years, swept away by technology. Why pay huge fees to spend three years on one campus, earning the right to be paid not very much more in the real world than non-graduates, rather than putting together your own combination of online courses, marked and graded online, using the lectures of the best teachers in the field wherever they happen to be?

There are no solutions for the many contradictions inherent in the concept of "public property," particularly when the property is directly concerned with the dissemination of ideas. This is one of the reasons why the rebels would choose a state university as their first battleground.

She could not attend her university, which was closed; she could not earn money, because public work for women, save a few specialized jobs, was forbidden; she couldn't even go on a walk through the neighborhood and watch the finches dart from tree to tree.

The University of Tehran had become the seat of too much disappointment, too much sorrow and hurt. Never again would I rush so innocently, so eagerly, to a class as I did in those days at the dawn of the revolution.

The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education.

In the modern university, each individual student is free to pursue almost any interest, without having to be harnessed to what his intellectual ancestors thought was worth knowing. But this freedom may come at a price. Now students are required to make choices about education that may affect them for the rest of their lives. And they are forced to make these choices at a point in their intellectual development when they may lack the resources to make them intelligently.

Colleges and universities, meanwhile, have no such qualms about torturing their applicants. Think about how much work a high-school student must do to even be considered for a spot at a decent college. The difference in college and job applications is especially striking when you consider that a job applicant will be getting paid upon acceptance while a college applicant will be paying for the privilege to attend.

Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.

Such people have a perfect right to their opinions and actions, if they remain lawful. But they have no reasonable claim to public funding. If radical right-wingers were receiving state funding for political operations disguised as university courses, as the radical left-wingers clearly are, the uproar from progressives across North America would be deafening.

It's the speech people engage in when they attempt to influence and manipulate others. It's what university students do when they write an essay to please the professor, instead of articulating and clarifying their own ideas. It's what everyone does when they want something, and decide to falsify themselves to please and flatter. It's scheming and sloganeering and propaganda.

have seen university students, particularly those in the humanities, suffer genuine declines in their mental health from being philosophically berated by such defenders of the planet for their existence as members of the human species. It's worse, I think, for young men. As privileged beneficiaries of the patriarchy, their accomplishments are considered unearned.

La universidad ha arruinado desde hace generaciones la vitalidad del pensamiento y queda ya solo su momia y su esqueleto, como algo que se enseña de tal hora a tal hora. Pensar es otra cosa. Es terror, entusiasmo, desazón, curiosidad, profunda delicia, exaltación... es lo qu ese produce cuando el vivir se estira, se acrece y siendo vivir es más que vivir Ortega y Gasset A la Biografia de Jordi Gracia

Joe attended Xavier High School, a Catholic military academy, and later Fordham University, a Jesuit school.

Finance as taught in universities is generally divided into three areas: (1) financial management, (2) capital markets, and (3) investments.

I remained associated with the Technische Universitat Munchen, where I became Professor in 1976.

I believe being president of a private institution is a remarkable experience, but at Ohio State, it's a calling.

I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but carried with me with the persuasive arguments and pitiable dilemma of its arguable protagonist, Satan.

As a scholar, you don't want to repeat yourself, ever. You're supposed to say it once, publish it, and then it's published, and you don't say it again. If someone comes and gives a scholarly paper about something they've already published, that's just terrible. As a university president, you have to say the same thing over and over and over.