Quotes About University

This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates - is they just keeping giving back.

I try again, with the friendliest-looking man I can find. He's middle-aged and round-bellied, like his group of friends, all wearing University of Wisconsin sweatshirts emblazoned with the schools mascot, Bucky Badger.

Afterwards he congratulated me on a new university record for the most organs hit with one needle in a single procedure.

The university should not be a cloister; it should be a laboratory that creates habits of action through inquiry laced with compassion, memory, and fidelity.

Humanistisen alan yliopisto-opinnot eivät tunnetusti johda mihinkään, paitsi lahjakkaimmilla opiskelijoilla humanistisen alan yliopistonopettajan uralle. Meillä on toisin sanoen hassunkurinen järjestelmä, jonka ainoa tavoite on omaneuvoinen lisääntyminen ja jossa jätteen osuus on yli yhdeksänkymmentäviisi prosenttia.

Een universitaire studie in de letteren leidt zoals iedereen weet nergens toe, behalve, voor de meest getalenteerde studenten, tot een universitaire onderwijscarrière in de letteren. [...]Zo'n studie is echter niet schadelijk en kan zelfs een marginaal nut hebben.

It only confirmed what I'd always thought - that for all their education university professors can't even imagine political developments having any effect on their careers : they consider themselves untouchable.

Forensic hypnosis is not a party trick and I decided to ask Professor D A P Louw from the University of the Free State to conduct the session for me. He was an expert and had handled forensic hypnosis sessions before.

We tried to answer these questions with the Experience Sampling Method (ESM), the procedure I developed at the University of Chicago to study the quality of experience.

A leading philosopher in our study maintains that if a young person wants to learn philosophy these days, he or she would be better advised to become immersed in the domain directly and avoid the field altogether: "I'd tell him to read the great books of philosophy. And I would tell him not to do graduate study at any university. I think all philosophy departments are no good. They are all terrible.

I had a hunch. Officially, scientists don't work on hunches. We work on hypotheses and observations and plenty of evidence. Hunches don't get you research funding, tenure at your university, or access to the world's largest telescopes. But a hunch was all I had.

Although it costs taxpayers more than twice as much to send an 18-year-old to prison as to university, politicians reap greater rewards from lobbyists and conservative voters for building cells than for building classrooms.

At this point in the course, everyone in the room despised Akiko, but suddenly he admired her courage to think so differently and to suggest such a difficult truth. He felt lucky to be at a university and not in most other settings, where the person in charge was always right. Nevertheless, until he really listened to Akiko disagree with the professor, he had not thought for himself fully, and it had never occurred to him to disagree in public.

stay in school and be a respectful and hardworking wallflower, and go to an accredited non-online university

La participación estudiantil, para mí, es el motor de la transformación y de la democratización de la universidad.

At Bologna, the students held control of their university, hired and fired professors, fined them for unexcused absences or lateness, for wandering from their subject, and for dodging difficult questions.

Frederick encouraged all branches of learning. He founded the University of Naples in 1224 to train lawyers, accountants, and civil servants. This was the first university founded and run by laymen.

Without external encouragement - which could sometimes become very strong - the world's literary and scholarly store would be scanty indeed. "Publish or perish" is nothing new; at the University of Bologna a professor was required to present his yearly disputation for publication and was heavily fined for dereliction.

Nowadays, education no longer matters, rather it is college or university life that has become so appealing to young minds.

The salary is not good in engineering fields, it is just compensation for your hard work and the money you paid in college or university.

Politically correct university courses are not liberating students to think for themselves. They are turning students into cadres of self-absorbed reactionaries ready to take orders from the faddish theorist of the moment.

I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

The purpose of primary education is the development of your weak characteristics; the purpose of university education, the development of your strong.

In one of his puckish moods Saul talked the president of a university into letting him anonymously take an examination being administered to candidates for a doctorate in community organization. "Three of the questions were on the philosophy of and motivations of Saul Alinsky," writes Saul. "I answered two of them incorrectly.