Quotes About University

Kim Il Sung University is the central base for training national cadres and the highest institute of Juche-based science and education.

Just as a CEO could care less about pay equity, the university administrator is unconcerned with how many of her program graduates secure employment of any particular quality.

... the best education is self-discipline with good principles through human university.

I quickly learned, however, that a university education is not a prerequisite to reading Shakespeare. After all, his original audience was not college-educated. Neither was he.

Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.

You can't continue to have higher education tuition grow at a multiple of the rate of inflation.

The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence?

At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble

My smells of university are the tarry wax on Barbour jackets and the oily wool of a Guernsey jumper. Fiendish fruity Pimms made in plastic dustbins for summer parties, with sickly sweet lemonade, fragrant with slices of apple and cucumber and handfuls of mint.

At a job interview at a university, three men sitting across from me at a table. On my cv it says that I am currently working on a book about the color blue. I have been saying this for years without writing a word. It is, perhaps, my way of making my life feel "in progress" rather than a sleeve of ash falling off a lit cigarette.

What I wish I had known, age twenty-one, as I cycled away from the results board towards the meadow by the river in Cambridge, where I would throw stones into the water and cry, is that nobody ever asks you what degree you got. It ceases to matter the moment you leave university. That the things in life which don't go to plan are usually more important, more formative, in the long run, than the things that do.

it lay in the true function of the university to promote that interplay of view, that discussion and dispute, that cumulative narrowing down of possibilities that led to the formation of accurate opinion. The students could be, as it were (he said), the rubbing post for the thought of his teacher.

Fuck Morton K. Brigham and Yale University," Clover said. "You ever been to that place? You have to have a pole stuck up your ass before you're allowed to walk on campus. Seriously, they have a booth with poles. Before they hire you for a job, they stick a second pole up there.

I was the first person to go to university from my family.

In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children.

People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.

At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

There are two MFA programs here at the University of Texas, and I read on the jury of both of them. And it's amazing to me how many really talented young writers seem to fear humor.

Il piacere della lettura rischiai di perderlo per eccesso di analisi, in fin dei conti è questo che nelle università si fa con i libri: li si analizza. Quindi abbandonai i corsi e approfittai degli appunti e della magnifica biblioteca per dedicarmi, anima e corpo, coricata sull'unico divano di casa nostra, alla lettura, Il Cile stava crollando mentre io flirtavo con il bel Mr. Darcy o spalancavo le porte alla dimora di Brideshead.

After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with the five other people at my university who were interested in writing; and through them, and some of my teachers, I discovered that there was a whole subterranean Wonderland of Canadian writing that was going on just out of general earshot and sight.

There are social deficiencies apt to strike the spirit of young men attending the university and which do strike them, but what is the official admonition? "You students should not concern yourselves with politics. You must attend to your studies and after you have formed yourselves, then go into the world," Yes. That is quite so, but education today does not form an intelligence capable of visualizing the epoch and the problems of the times in which they live.

At no point did I form the conscious intention of founding an ad hoc university in my sitting room. It happened, as it were, by accident.

Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.