“A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university ... This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.” WayChildrenTodayBornChanceUnitedTakenGreaterTenOur ChildrenMadUniversityDrivingKingdomsHospitalsIndicationUnited Kingdom Author:R. D. Laing
“When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.” LittlesSchoolTakenGrewGrew UpUniversityUsualBeatenPublic School Book:Nightmare Abbey Source: Nightmare Abbey
“Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars. At present the whole University system is rotten to the core, and an appalling waste of time, energy and money.” WholeHandsCareEnergyEducationRichTakenPoliticianWasteThirdsRateUniversityCoreWasting TimeScholarRotten Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter
“We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.” IfsLittlesEnoughFactsAbleLastsDealsTakenChildhoodInformationCollegeUniversityThese DaysContemplatingGoing OutSurvivedColleges And UniversitiesLamentation Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.” TakenResearchHistoricalLibraryUniversityPublishingVentureInvolvementHarvardHistorical ResearchHarvard University Author:Robert Darnton
“We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol of the city. In the modern world, its place could be taken by the university.” WorldAgeCitiesTakenModernMiddleUniversitySymbolsModern WorldMiddle AgesCathedrals Author:Roger Revelle
“If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed If they had taken from the bible only that which is GOOD and thrown away the wicked and absurd If temple domes had been observatories If priests had been philosophers If missionaries had taught useful arts instead of bible lore If astrology had been astronomy If the black arts had been chemistry If superstition had been science If religion had been humanity The world then would be a heaven filled with love, and liberty and joy” IfsWorldArtCharacterWould BeChristianJoyHumanityHeavenBlackLibertyTakenTaughtFilledUniversityPhilosopherAstronomyAbsurdWickedThrownTemplesPriestsChemistrySuperstitionsCreedsAstrologyLaboratoryCathedralsInquisitionDungeonsDomesBlack Art Author:Robert Green Ingersoll