A Quotes
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“A universidade moderna confere o privilégio de discordar apenas aos que foram testados e classificados como potenciais homens de dinheiro ou detentores de poder. Ninguém recebe um centavo dos fundos fiscais para formar-se nas horas vagas ou para educar outros, a não ser que possa comprová-lo com um certificado. As escolas escolhem para os estágios seguintes aqueles que, nos primeiros estágios do jogo, provaram ser bons investimentos para a ordem estabelecida.”
Source: Deschooling Society
“A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.”
Source: The Uses of the University
“A university cannot make an imbecile less of a fool, neither can it make a warped mind straight; it is supposed to be a laboratory for the inquisitive mind so that he or she can take advantage of its academic resources. - On Academic Learning”
Source: Walking the Soul
“A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.”
“A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow.”
“A university is a reading and discussion club. If students knew how to use the library, they wouldn't need the rest of the buildings. The faculty's job, in great part, is to teach students how to use a library in a living way. All a student should really need is access to the library and a place to sleep.”
Source: Ciardi himself: fifteen essays in the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry
“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
“A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.”
“A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.”
“A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.”
Source: On the contrary
“A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.”
Source: The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography
“A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.”
“A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.”
“A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours.”
Source: Banker To The Poor
“A university shouldn't be a place of comfort. It should be a place of discomfort because you want to disabuse these kids of whatever prejudices or preconceptions they have when they come. You're trying to get them to think and develop, not be a Johnny-one-note.”
“A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.”
“A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.”
“A unjust law, is no law at all.”
“A uno scrittore che ti racconta la sua vita non bisogna mai dare credito perché se è un vero scrittore rinnoverà a ogni rigo, fino alla fine dei suoi giorni, il patto di infedeltà con la realtà che ha stipulato all’inizio della sua carriera. Per un romanziere, la sua stessa autobiografia non sarà che un’altra occasione per inventare. Quello che conta, per lui, è solo il senso di fondo. Tutti gli scrittori sanno bene che per arrivare a farsi un’idea della verità devono attraversare un mare di bugie. È il loro paradosso.”
Source: La lettrice scomparsa
“A uno siempre le interesa lo que es distinto o desconocido.”
Source: Informe sobre ciegos
“A US Department of Education; implementation of a scientific materialist philosophy; studies, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the bourgeois ideology; students taught on the basis of Marxian dialectical materialism, internationalism and general ethics of a new socialist society; present obsolete methods of teaching will be superseded by a scientific pedagogy. The whole basis and organization of capitalist science will be revolutionized. Science will become materialistic, hence truly scientific. God will be banished from the laboratories as well as from the schools.”
“A use-value, or useful article, therefore, has value only because abstract human labour is objectified or materialized in it. How, then, is the magnitude of this value to be measured? By means of the quantity of the "value-forming substance", the labour, contained in the article. This quantity is measured by its duration, and the labour-time is itself measured on the particular scale of hours, days etc.”
Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1
“A use-value, or useful article, therefore, has value only because abstract human labour is objectified or materialized in it. How, then, is the magnitude of value to be measured? By means of the quantity of the "value-forming substance", the labour, contained in the article. This quantity is measured by its duration, and the labour-time is itself measured on the particular scale of hours, days etc.”
Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1
“A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern civilization is withdrawing accumulated solar capital at rates that will exhaust it in a tiny fraction of the time that was needed to create it.”
Source: Energy: A Beginner's Guide
“A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.”
Source: Liberty and the News
“A useful first step is to reverse engineer the situation back to the triggering event and to define the specific problem you are facing. You can then determine options for handling it. The various manifestations of anger reflect a sense that something is “not fair,” which is related to a should statement, such as “this should not happen.” Dealing with “shoulds” involves acknowledging that you obviously are not happy that something happened, but that you must still face the fact that it did happen. Thus, the task then turns to dealing with the situation.”
Source: The Adult ADHD Tool Kit
“A useful word previously unknown to me: 'ergophobia', meaning 'fear or hatred of work'. At last I can define myself in one word.”
“A useless life is an early death.”
“A useless life is an early death.
[Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.]”
“A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good”
“A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.”
“A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.”
“A usurper always distrusts the whole world.”
“A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring.”
“A utopia that doesn't deal with the detrimental denominators, is a dystopian disaster waiting to happen.”
“A utopian future for the Internet could be secured if the heavy-duty influencers - and the grassroots influencers tweeting along - can create a new global organization peopled with defenders of Internet freedom.”
“A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace by man is absolute control of all wrongs. Bully-cultures find this: with each and every mistake, another village idiot is shamed into nothingness and mindlessly shut down by the herd. This is a superficial peace made by force and by fear, one in which there is no freedom to breathe; and the reason it is impossible for man to maintain freedom and peace for everyone at the same time. Christ, on the other hand, transforms, instead of controls, by instilling his certain inner peace. This is the place where one realizes that only his holiness is and feels like true freedom, rather than like imprisonment, and, too, why Hell, I imagine, a magnified version of man's never-ending conflict between freedom and peace, would be the flesh's ultimate utopia - yet its ultimate regret.”
Source: Healology
“A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.”
Source: Six Months in Italy
“A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.”
Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings
“A vacation from school should not mean hunger for our children.”
“A vacation is a poor substitute for love.”
Source: Crank
“A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.”
“A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.”
“A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.”
“A vacation should be just long enough that your boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.”
“A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic”
“A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten.”
“A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.”
“A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.”
“A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.”