“Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.” Life IsUniversityDistinctionGraduates Author:Louisa May Alcott
“I have never understood why they tried to start the revolution by taking over the universities. It should have been self-evident that the net result of success would be to close the universities but leave the nation unaffected--at least, for quite a long time. Nor do I find it easy to believe that the rebels, as intelligent as most of them were, seriously expected that they could keep the universities alive as corporate bodies, once they had control of them, if they made the fundamental alterations in organization and role that they proposed to.” IfsShouldBelieveLongHas BeensMadeSelfBodyWould BeNationsEasyResultsRolesAliveRevolutionLong TimeUnderstoodShould HaveOrganizationIntelligentFundamentalsUniversityExpectedCorporateRebelEvidentShould Have BeenAlterations Author:Muriel Beadle
“[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to create a society that places human values before materialistic ones, that has a little less head and a little more heart, that is dominated by self-interest and loves its neighbor more. And they were persuaded that group protest of a militant nature would advance those goals.” HumansHeartLittlesSelfPoliticalValuesGoalInterestGroupsStudentsAdultsAnd LoveInstitutionsUniversityNeighborHatedHypocrisyProtestBureaucracySelf InterestMaterialisticMilitantRigidityHuman ValuesPolitical InstitutionsUniversity StudentsImpersonality Author:Muriel Beadle
“I've been thinking about going back to university. I need more tools to continue to apply to the music. I've got to open myself up to more language.” ThinkingNeedsLanguageToolsUniversity Author:Ana Tijoux
“My own feminist revolution evolved slowly, and traveled the world with me. To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist tests on the bookshelves at the university library in Jeddah, but I found them there. They filled me with terror. I understood they were pulling at a thread that would unravel everything. Now that I am older, I can see that feeling terrified is how you recognize what you need. Terror encourages you to jump, even when you don't know if you will ever land.” IfsKnowsWorldNeedsI CanIdeasFeelingsFoundMy OwnLandRevolutionUnderstoodTestsFilledLibraryUniversityTerrorFeministNo IdeaThis DayProfessorsThreadPullingTraveledTerrifiedLibrarianBookshelvesDissidents Author:Mona Eltahawy
“After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with the five other people at my university who were interested in writing; and through them, and some of my teachers, I discovered that there was a whole subterranean Wonderland of Canadian writing that was going on just out of general earshot and sight.” PeopleWritingTryingYearsPersonsMadeTwoWholeFiveTeacherNormalSightDown AndUniversityContactWonderland Author:Margaret Atwood
“In 15 years from now half of US universities may be in bankruptcy ... in the end I'm excited to see that happen. So pray for Harvard Business School if you wouldn't mind.” IfsYearsMindMayEndsHappensSchoolHalfPrayingUniversityExcitedHarvardBankruptcyBusiness School Author:Clayton Christensen
“Our higher education system is controlled by what amounts to a cartel of existing colleges and universities, which use their power over the accreditation process to block innovative, low-cost competitors from entering the market.” UseProcessEducationCollegeAmountHigherCostLowsUniversityBlockControlledEnteringCompetitorsInnovativeEducation SystemHigher EducationColleges And UniversitiesCartels Author:Marco Rubio
“Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do give us useful things as well!” LifeGivingWellsSadnessGood ThingsUniversityBad ThingsUseful Things Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“It does make a broader point which is the fight against Islamist terror is not just one that we can wage by the police and border control. It needs every school, every university, every college, every community to recognize they have a role to play, we all have a role to play in stopping people from having their minds poisoned by this appalling death cult.” PeopleNeedsMindDoePlaySchoolFightingCommunityRolesCollegePoliceUniversityTerrorBordersJust OneCultStoppingIslamistsBorder Control Author:David Cameron
“It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea.” PeopleWellsIdeasTogetherCommunitySmartUniversityGood IdeasAcademic Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“I am thankful for the strong, united response of our university community to the desecration of the James Meredith statue last year, confirming our university values of civility and respect. what it is saying is that the only possible justice for a black in the state of Mississippi is the federal government and if there's anything that we don't need it's that being our only means of expecting justice.” IfsNeedsYearsMeanStatesGovernmentLastsValuesStrongBlackCommunityJusticeUnitedResponseUniversityExpectingLast YearFederal GovernmentStatuesCivilityMississippiI Am Thankful Author:James Meredith
“No institutions in modern society are better equipped to catalyze the necessary transition to a sustainable world than colleges and universities. They have access to the leaders of tomorrow and the leaders of today. What they do matters to the wider public.” WorldMatterTodayLeaderModernCollegeTomorrowInstitutionsEnvironmentalUniversityAccessTransitionSustainabilityModern SocietyColleges And UniversitiesLeaders Of Tomorrow Author:David W. Orr
“There can be no solution to the challenge of climate change that is not global. But if we can come together in partnership, we can transform today's challenge into tomorrow's opportunity - an opportunity for green growth and sustainable prosperity... we also need a strong bottom-up push from academics and opinion-shapers such as you. Universities such as yours are founts of ideas and innovation. They are furnaces of innovation and entrepreneurship. So, send forth this word.” IfsNeedsIdeasTodayTogetherOpportunityStrongGrowthChallengesOpinionTomorrowSolutionsInnovationGreenClimateEnvironmentalBottomClimate ChangeUniversityProsperityEntrepreneurshipSustainabilityPartnershipFurnacesIdeas And Innovation Author:Ban Ki-moon
“In high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who have been rigorously prepared in universities and through supervised practice in schools, and who remain in education for all of their careers.” Has BeensCountrySchoolCareersPracticeTeacherPreparedUniversityRangePerformingPrincipalQualifiedEducation For All Author:Andy Hargreaves
“I have some unfinished business to complete at the University of Oregon.” UniversityUnfinishedOregonUnfinished Business Author:Chip Kelly
“Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.” SaidMinesLateUniversityProfessorsPassagesCautionStanleyUniversity Professors Author:Adam Ross
“My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.” Has BeensWholeSchoolBoysUniversityLondonWhole LifeSundayGrammarCambridgeGrammar SchoolCambridge University Author:Robert Lacey
“There were many generations of Latino people coming to this country, coming from difficult political or social situations in their own countries, and they worked very hard to have their kids go to universities. Well, those kids came out and they are now doctors and architects, or they are on the Supreme Court. That has a reflection in Hollywood. So, we are actually very proud that our characters are Latinos, and I think it's good for diversity and cultural interaction.” PeopleThinkingWellsCountryHardCharacterKidsPoliticalSocialDifficultSituationGenerationsProudDiversityReflectionDoctorsHollywoodCourtUniversitySupremeArchitectInteractionSupreme CourtLatino Author:Antonio Banderas
“I remember the university as being very encouraging, especially to experimentation. I think you always get a lot of musicians in any art community, and it seemed like a lot of people I knew worked on films that got made locally.” PeopleThinkingArtMadeRememberFilmCommunityMusicianUniversityExperimentation Author:Neil Farber
“I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What led me to drawing was seeing so much self-important, pretentious, conceptual-type art in university. I wanted to reject that by making quick, fun art.” ArtImportantSelfWantedFormFunSeeingPaintingTypeHighestUniversityDrawingRelatedAbstractRejectsPretentiousSurrealismAbstract Painting Author:Neil Farber
“All money for agricultural extension, land grant universities has been toward developing industrial food. Lots of money has been invested toward maximizing yield. If you took even a small amount of that money and put it toward organic research, I don't have any doubts you could match those yields.” IfsHas BeensDoubtLandAmountResearchUniversityDevelopingGrantsYieldLots Of MoneyExtensionsSmall AmountsMaximizing Author:Michael Pollan
“I remembered that throughout my growing up and education and pursuing my dreams and desires, going into acting, and, of course, getting through Yale University and on and on and on, that being average, being mediocre was not an option that you should be proud of.” ShouldDreamDesireCoursesActingGrowing UpGrowingProudUniversityAverageRememberedBe ProudMediocreBeing MeYaleYale University Author:Angela Bassett
“I believed in looking at people as individuals, not in groups. I hated groups; still do. And I saw particularly the university, the university artists really acted as a group. The others didn't so much, but the university people took advantage of that and behaved like a group, rather than as individuals. They had a lot of power that way.” PeopleWayStillsArtistIndividualSawsGroupsAdvantageUniversityHated Author:Tom Robbins
“Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.” IfsUseOur LivesLibraryUniversity Author:Ray Bradbury
“I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and I teach and I go from university to university. I'm one of the old, but I still go around, but I only see those who are not like that, I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.” IfsFeelsWritingMeanPersonsStillsBookTeachNovelYouthStudentsUniversityWho I AmPrivilegedEssaysJunkListen To Me Author:Elie Wiesel
“People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing.” PeopleKnowsWritingKindWantedSchoolCertainSongClassNovelCreativeRocksCollegeBandUniversityBarsRock And RollCreative WritingGreat AmericanFraternityTop 10SyracuseClasses In School Author:Lou Reed
“Many of the most important principles of intelligence cannot by taught at universities, from books, or through other temporal learning processes. Often these great principles are learned from afflictions, tribulations, and other mortal experiences. All that we learn in this manner will benefit us not only in this life but also in the next, for 'whatever principle of intelligence we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection'.” ImportantBookNextProcessPrinciplesTaughtBenefitsAdversityUniversityMortalsThis LifeResurrectionAfflictionLearning ProcessTribulation Author:Monte J. Brough
“There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.” ReasonIndiaUniversityFoundingCautious Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.” PeopleShouldCountryDiesTurnsEducationAimUniversityServantUniversity Education Book:Collected Works Source: Collected Works
“After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois the skirt lengths dropped instead of going up as they had during the roaring twenties and I knew that was a very bad sign, and it is symbolic and reflective of a very repressive time, and some of that was laid the feet of the cold war.” WorldWarFeetCollegeColdTwentiesUniversityWar Of The WorldsLengthConformityCold WarConservatismSymbolicSkirtsRoaringIllinoisRoaring Twenties Author:Hugh Hefner
“I wanted to transfer to an art school, and ended up going to the University of Southern California. They had a cinematography school, and I said "Well, that's sort of like photography, maybe that will be interesting." And once I started in that department, I found what it was that I loved and was good at.” WellsArtSaidWantedSchoolFoundInterestingPhotographyUniversityCaliforniaDepartmentSouthernTransfersArt SchoolCinematographySouthern California Author:George Lucas
“I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.” ThinkingKnowsWorldShouldPoetUniversityAcademicWorkshops Author:Adrienne Rich
“I would start by writing to an adult, maybe a high school teacher, or maybe an aunt or uncle, and writing and telling them why you want to go to a particular university. That's probably what you would actually sound like. Then write your letter to the university, and put those 2 versions in front of you, and look at the difference between those 2 things.” WantWritingLooksSchoolSoundDifferencesTeacherFrontsParticularHigh SchoolAdultsLettersUniversityVersionsUnclesAuntSchool TeachersHigh School Teachers Author:David Sedaris
“I was a beast in college. I worked hard and I played hard. I was relentless learning about business. I actually snuck into MBA classes my freshman and sophomore years. I wanted to challenge myself to see how I compared to the smartest kids at Indiana University so I was 18 and pretended I was an MBA student.” YearsHardKidsWantedChallengesClassStudentsCollegeUniversityBeastRelentlessIndianaFreshmanSophomoreMbaSophomore Year Author:Mark Cuban
“Nothing can kill the future dreams and goals of a new graduate than 50k of debt like an anvil over your head. I got to Indiana University not because I visited the campus and loved everything about it. I picked Indiana University because I saw a list of the top 10 business schools and it was the cheapest.” DreamSchoolGoalSawsUniversityDebtListsOver YouGraduatesCampusIndianaDreams And GoalsAnvilsBusiness SchoolTop 10Future Dreams Author:Mark Cuban
“I'm on the faculty. I teach. And it's not easy for a poor person to enter the campus to track down the professor in the campus in a Bangladesh situation. They all will be stopped at the gate. You have no business in the university!” PersonsEasyPoorSituationTeachUniversityTrackGatesFacultyProfessorsCampusBangladesh Author:Muhammad Yunus
“Being a poet in the States is quite different from being one in China, because in the States poetry depends on the universities for its support. They finance the poets and help them get published. That isn't so in China. But overall it is the same. You can't change society with poetry.” DifferentStatesHelpingSupportPoetDependsUniversityChinaFinanceCan't Change Author:Bei Dao
“Unfortunately, there's a big, bad new bully threatening ocean animals, climate change. We might save fish only to have them starve because of climate change. It seems like the problems just won't stop. That's what got me to quit my cushy University job and take a big pay cut to work on conservation.” ProblemBigsSeemsMightJobsAnimalPayCuttingOceanClimateClimate ChangeUniversityFishesQuittingConservationThreateningBully Author:Mark Powell
“I am interested in recent scholarly work examining the emergence of women's studies and ethnic studies departments and the development of the neoliberal university.” StudyDevelopmentUniversityDepartmentExaminingEmergenceScholarly Author:Dean Spade
“When I re-read the Odyssey, it felt like I was reading PD James or Minette Walters - you feel that you are sharing in something that hundreds of millions of people have read with love, and I think that this is worth holding onto. It is not a matter of canonical texts or elitism, which the universities are trying to make us wary about. It is about shared language and metaphor and experience and imagery and that is all good.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingMatterReadingLanguageFeltMillionsUniversityMetaphorImageryHolding OnElitismOdyssey Author:Robert Dessaix
“One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves and that they must now do it. In fact there are positive incentives for doing so - universities are offering degrees for writing novels.” PeopleFeelsWritingFactsCoursesNovelCreativeDegreesPreparedUniversityOfferingUnfortunateCreative WritingIncentivesImpatientUnfortunate Things Author:Robert Dessaix
“I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.” PayCareersBillsUniversityProfessorsVocationUniversity Professors Author:Cate Marvin
“Education is fantastic. In my case I had to split my university course so it took a few more years. I really want to excel at everything I do, so I sat down and spoke with both my swimming coach and my tutor and we worked out a good plan to get the best out of both my swimming and my education.” WantYearsCoursesCasesPlansDown AndUniversityCoachesFantasticSatSpokesSwimmingSplitsTutor Author:Liam Tancock
“I didn't go to university. They offered me a job as a junior reporter and I went off to work for the Southern Reporter. They sent me to college to do my NCTJ, which is a professional exam for journalists, and I started work as a print journalist purely because I was just a pest. They couldn't think of anything other than giving me a job to stop me hanging around.” ThinkingGivingJobsCollegeUniversityJournalistPrintSouthernReportersJuniorsExamHanging AroundPests Author:Jill Douglas
“At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.” YearsFirstsArtStageDesignTelevisionMajorsUniversityTheatrePlanningMaryland Author:Jim Henson
“Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.” YearsFirstsSchoolCollegeHigh SchoolYeahUniversityProductionsPostersScenerySmall PartsMaryland Author:Jim Henson
“I was 21 and had spent the last few years in Stanford University Engineering School at California. Many people advised me to take up a nice, cushy job rather than face the challenges of running a hydrogenated oil business. Looking back, I am glad I decided to take charge instead. Essentially leadership begins from within. It is a small voice that tells you where to go when you feel lost. If you believe in that voice, you believe in yourself.” PeopleIfsInspirationalFeelsYearsBelieveRunningSchoolJobsLastsFacesLostVoiceChallengesBusinessNiceDecidedUniversityOilGladCaliforniaBelieve In YourselfEngineeringLooking BackBelieve In YouIf You BelieveStanfordSmall VoiceStanford UniversityOil Business Author:Azim Premji
“It fulfils the purpose of Universities if they can find out ways of achieving those feats which haven't been achieved till now.” IfsWayPurposeEducationAchieveHavensIndiaUniversityFeats Author:Narendra Modi
“I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to "truthiness." I am also someone who has been trained in deconstruction in the literary theory department of Yale University, so I am someone who is tempted to believe that no absolute truth is possible.” BelieveHas BeensValuesTheoryTruth IsAbsolutesUniversityDepartmentTemptedAbsolute TruthYaleDeconstructionLiterary TheoryYale University Author:John Hodgman