“This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.” HumansTwoCenturyEventsUniversityObviousBackgroundsRecognitionInstructionInclusion Book:The Oriental Institute Source: The Oriental Institute
“A German merchant of the fifteenth century asked an eminent professor where he should send his son for a good business education. The professor responded that German universities would be sufficient to teach the boy addition and subtraction but he would have to go to Italy to learn multiplication and division. Before you smile indulgently, try multiplying or even just adding the Roman numerals CCLXIV, MDCCCIX, DCL, and MLXXXI without first translating them.” ShouldTryingFirstsWould BeBoysTeachCenturySonUniversitySufficientDivisionProfessorsTranslateMerchantsGood BusinessMultiplicationMultiplyingSubtractionNumeralsBusiness EducationRoman Numerals Book:Beyond Numeracy Source: Beyond Numeracy
“Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of Big Science, Garber argues that twenty-first-century universities must rigorously devote their attention to Big Art. Provocative, witty, and layered, Patronizing the Arts cogently demonstrates the advantages for both art and the university in this new and radical alliance.” FirstsArtBigsAttentionCenturyArt IsAdvantageTwentiesEmbraceUniversityWittyArguingRadicalTwentieth CenturyAlliancesAssessmentProvocativePatronPatronizing Author:Peggy Phelan
“The real University... has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries, and receives no material dues... The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries.” MindHas BeensRealStatesPayCenturyMaterialsPropertyUniversityDuesRationalState Of MindHeritageLocationSalaryRational ThoughtZen Motorcycle Maintenance Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“University, as institutions, pre-date the information economy by many centuries and are not for-profit cultural entities, whose reason of existence (purportedly) is to discover truth, codify it through techniques of scholarship, and then teach it. Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization not just download data into student skulls.” ReasonExistenceTeachEconomyCenturyInformationStudentsCivilizationInstitutionsUniversityProfitTechniqueDataEntityScholarshipSkullsTorchesDownloads Author:Bruce Sterling
“Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.” IfsMeditationCenturyUniversityPhysics21st CenturyLecturesCatalogues Author:Gary Zukav