“It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent” MenIdeasSeemsRoomsOughtUniversity Author:H. L. Mencken
“Brilliant lecturers shouldn't be wasted in lecture rooms: they should appear onTV. We need black market universities, in which people just help each other, and which don't leave out the poor.” PeopleNeedsShouldHelpingBlackPoorRoomsUniversityBrilliantLecturesLecturerHelping Each Other Author:Theodore Zeldin
“Don't send your kids to Baylor. And don't send your kids to [Texas] A&M... Texas A&M used to be a conservative university. It's lost all of its conservatism.... My daughter went there. You know, she had horrible experiences with coed dorms and guys who spent the weekends in the rooms with girls.” KnowsKidsUsedGuyGirlLostRoomsDaughterUniversityConservativeScaryHorribleUsed To BeMy DaughterTexasWeekendConservatismDormsHorrible ExperienceBaylorCoed Author:Tom DeLay
“In a cross-cultural study of 173 societies (by Herbert Barry and L. M. Paxson of the University of Pittsburgh) 76 societies typically had mother and infant sharing a bed; in 42 societies they shared a room but not a bed; and in the remaining 55 societies they shared a room with a bed unspecified. There were no societies in which infants routinely slept in a separate room.” MotherRoomsStudyBedCrossesUniversityInfantPittsburgh Author:Melvin Konner
“When I went to the University of Iowa in order to be a writer, I thought, This is the worst way to learn how to write. To sit in a room with a bunch of would-be writers, who want to write the Great American Novel, every one of them, and you read their stories and they read yours, and you're not living a life. I don't like that. I like learning on the job. The character of my work has definitely evolved from the character of my life.” WayWantWritingCharacterStoriesWould BeJobsOrderRoomsNovelWorstUniversityBunchGreat AmericanIowa Author:Joe Frank