Quotes About University

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.

When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.

University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

It would be the twentieth century before the opening of the British Headquarters Papers at the University of Michigan proved what the eighteenth century refused to believe that a young and beautiful woman was capable of helping Benedict Arnold plot the greatest conspiracy of the American Revolution and then completely fooling the astute warriors around her.

Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.

Some critics may say Noonday was mad. He was not. Toweringly weird, yes--mad, no. He saw that in five years he would attain the Presidency of the University. Form there he could embark on a career leading straight to the White House, that High Seat of the Lie, open only to holders of the Third Degree of Falsehood.

The campus was Disney-fascist, a relentlessly upbeat place to wither and die.

And at that pivotal moment, the University of Tennessee came calling. So did forensic anthropology. My career as "Indian grave-robber number one" was over. My true vocation—as a forensic scientist—was about to begin.

What we have before us then, is three distinct purposes for a university: the commercial purpose (starting a career), Stephen Pinker's cognitive purpose (acquiring information and learning how to think) and (William) Deresiewicz's moral purpose (building an integrated self).

Christian, D. (2004). Maps of time: An introduction to big history. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Neville Chamberlain, the only British prime minister until Margaret Thatcher to have had a university education in science and the only university-educated twentieth-century prime minister to have studied entirely outside Oxbridge.

Fourth, Swensen & Co. are extraordinarily thoughtful about and engaged with their client, Yale University.

Dan's use of two-stage exams kills two birds with one stone. Firstly, he maximises learning by ensuring that the exam itself is a learning experience. Second, in doing so, he makes clear that the grade is less important than the learning. Two-stage exams have not yet 'taken off' around the world, and grades remain the key outcome of most exams for most students. Dan, though, has taken advantage of his position in a graduate university environment to push the idea forward.

It was not the first time I had encountered on university campuses ignorance of Hayek and other conservative intellectuals, nor was it accidental. Such ignorance is a direct consequence of the tenured left's dominance of liberal arts institutions and its politicization of the curriculum and the faculty hiring process since the 1960s.

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

Victory is a good wine; defeat is a good university!

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

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