“When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.” ThinkingWayNeedsPersonsYoungLeftLanguageSidesImaginationBrainSilenceUniversityIntuitionRationalSymbols Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“The first thing we can do as individuals and as communities, like a school or a university or a church, is cut our energy use. Do an energy audit or measure our carbon footprint using online carbon calculators that are free, easy, and cheap. Get a list of the ways that we can stop wasting so much energy and save money.” WayFirstsUseSchoolIndividualEnergyEasyCan DoCommunityChurchCuttingUniversityListsOnlineCarbonSaving MoneyFootprintCarbon FootprintCalculatorsEnergy Use Author:Katharine Hayhoe
“I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter.” LeftPercentUniversityPainter Author:Rebecca Miller
“In college I wrote for the university newspaper, and I had several short stories published in small press. I think it's just been a natural progression of where to go with the imagination and not have to grow up.” ThinkingStoriesGrowsImaginationNaturalGrowing UpCollegePressesUniversityNewspapersShort StoryProgression Author:Gabriel Campisi
“It is difficult for Iranian scholars and universities to retain their independence and to be seen as doing so, when cultural warfare is being carried out by some of their American partners. Indeed, such irresponsible behavior basically serves to intensify suspicion and in reality decreases the opportunity for real and meaningful dialogue.” RealRealityOpportunityDifficultBehaviorIndependenceUniversityPartnersMeaningfulDialogueScholarSuspicionWarfareIrresponsibleDecreaseIranian Author:Mohammad Marandi
“I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you're suffering a lot, especially in the Bob Marley sense, suffering becomes a kind of university out of which you'll learn some hard lessons.” IfsThinkingTryingKindHardSufferingSidesViewsLessonsFairsUniversityBobMarleyHard Lessons Author:Fred D'Aguiar
“Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor.” WritingYearsJobsCommunityTeachingCollegeLaborUniversityVersionsAcademiaMigrantsPart TimeColleges And UniversitiesCommunity CollegeTeaching Writing Author:Debra Dean
“The effects of MFA programs, and the rise of creative writing instruction more generally, are far more diffuse than people think. Even if you're a writer who has avoided institutions your whole life, you're still going to be reading a lot of writers who have MFAs, and are affiliated with universities.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingStillsWholeReadingCreativeEffectsProgramInstitutionsUniversityWhole LifeInstructionCreative WritingAvoided Author:Chad Harbach
“I floundered in my twenties. Though I wore a long scarf. And when I got to be thirty I got a job at Temple University in Philadelphia. I worked there for seven years, and I finally got fired, mostly for political reasons.” YearsLongReasonJobsPoliticalTwentiesSevenUniversityThirtyTemplesSeven YearsPhiladelphiaScarves Author:Gerald Stern
“Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.” PeopleYoungNumbersStudyGrewInternetPercentUniversityDuesGamblingExposurePennsylvaniaUniversity Of Pennsylvania Author:Spencer Bachus
“Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that he will donate $45 billion of his wealth to philanthropy. Two years ago, my husband and I decided to endow $100 million to set up the SOHO China Scholars. This program will give financial aid to Chinese students so they can attend the best universities in the world.” WorldGivingYearsTwoWealthMillionsStudentsHusbandYears AgoProgramDecidedMarkUniversityFinancialChinaAidsBillionsChineseTwo YearsMy HusbandScholarPhilanthropyDonateTwo Years AgoZuckerbergSohoFinancial Aid Author:Zhang Xin
“I used to ask myself why American universities are financed through endowments. Now I know: During the early days of America, the state was poor and when citizens wanted to set something up, they needed to collect money themselves. Historically, this was different in Europe. There used to be a strong state, a monarch or a king. He provided money.” KnowsDifferentStatesWantedAmericaUsedAsksStrongPoorKingsNeededCitizensEuropeUniversityUsed To BeMonarchsEndowmentAmerican Universities Author:Zhang Xin
“Sometimes I'm writing for magazines on assignment, but the university has to be patient with me. I mean, during the ten-week periods that I have a class, I'm there every Thursday night or whatever it is, but sometimes that's all I'm there, because I'm somewhere else the rest of the time.” WritingMeanSometimesNightClassWeekPeriodsTenPatientUniversityMagazinesBe PatientSomewhere ElseAssignmentsThursdayThursday Night Author:Pam Houston
“I work under three umbrellas: entertainment, education, and entrepreneurship. Of course the entertainment fragment speaks for itself because I'm in Chicago. However, a lot of folks may not know I teach courses at Ohio State University that covers life in professional sports.” KnowsMayStatesThreeCoursesSpeakSportsTeachUniversityFolksEntertainmentEntrepreneurshipChicagoFragmentsOhioUmbrellaProfessional SportsOhio StateOhio State University Author:Eddie George
“I've seen young men in college going into the NFL and then bite the cheese that's in the trap. They'll throw you a pair of Jordans or a moneybag for their services. It's in that moment where most compromise. This business is unforgivable, and you got a bunch of sharks out there. It's mind boggling that universities don't prepare athletes for what they're going to experience.” MenMindMomentsYoungCollegeUniversityAthleteBunchCompromiseYoung ManNflPairsThat MomentBitesCheeseTrapsJordanSharksUnforgivableMind Boggling Author:Eddie George
“The universities will ask for money back so they can put their name on the side of a building without fully educating athletes .” AsksNamesSidesBuildingUniversityAthlete Author:Eddie George
“I didn't actually figure out how to get guidance, so I just decided to go to school at University of Southern California because they sent me a glossy brochure.” SchoolFiguresDecidedUniversityCaliforniaGuidanceSouthernSouthern CaliforniaBrochures Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“I do different work, teaching and running around visiting universities and bookstores, and that prevents me from writing. But it's nice to be wanted as a writer.” WritingDifferentRunningWantedNiceTeachingUniversityVisitingBookstores Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“When you make it to eighty-four, then you're ready to sit back and think universal and systematic. I was a philosophy major a long, long time ago. At Stony Brook. You had something to do with some state university school?” ThinkingLongStatesPhilosophySchoolFourReadyMajorsLong TimeUniversalUniversityEightyLong Time AgoSystematicBrooks Author:Richard Meltzer
“I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.” ArtistPaintingDegreesUniversityOutsidersUniversity Degrees Author:Marcel Dzama
“The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night.” WritingStillsSchoolNightRocksComputerUniversityHallsCampusMichiganUniversity Of Michigan Author:Davy Rothbart
“Someone thought that I dropped out of Harvard. I am a college dropout, but I dropped out of Temple University in Philadelphia.” CollegeUniversityTemplesHarvardPhiladelphiaDropouts Author:Paul F. Tompkins
“I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps. My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school. I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.” WorldStatesHelpingGovernmentSchoolJobsIndividualSawsCollegeGrewMomDegreesGrew UpUniversityMy MomBrokeTemplesGrantsStampsLoanSingle MomBetter JobsWaitressFood StampsPell Grants Author:Adam McKay
“Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing. I answered an ad that the Presbyterian Church of Chicago put up on college campuses. I was at the University of Kansas, and it's somewhat relevant to my life and work that I'm a Jew. But they weren't doing a religious litmus test. They wanted energetic, civil-rights-committed college students to come help them run some summer programs.” KindHelpingRunningWantedTermChurchReligiousRightsStudentsCollegeSummerProgramTestsUniversityCommittedJewCivil RightsChicagoRelevantAdsEnergeticCampusKansasOrganizerCollege StudentsPresbyteriansCollege Campus Author:Sara Paretsky
“I went to high school and university in Vancouver. Vancouver is really into yoga, so I have been doing it for years. The one thing that I know it helped me with for sure is changing the way that I think about and experience physical pain.” ThinkingKnowsWayYearsHas BeensSchoolPainOne ThingHigh SchoolYogaUniversityVancouverPhysical Pain Author:Vanya Asher
“I kind of took inspiration from my time in Paris. That was kind of the real time when I discovered European fashion. It's stuck with me since University.” KindRealInspirationFashionUniversityStuckParisMy Time Author:Olivia Palermo
“The [Burmese] government appears to be more interested in stamping out political activity than drug addiction. Very few university students on the campus could get away with engaging in political activities, but they seem to be able to get away with taking drugs. We have heard that it is very easy to obtain drugs on the university campuses.” SeemsGovernmentAblePoliticalEasyHeardStudentsDrugActivityAddictionUniversityGet AwayEngagingCampusDrug AddictionDrug AddictUniversity Students Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“Well, here you had a city that was selling more cars than ever before, that had this wondrous music being created, that was so vital to the labor and civil rights of this country, and yet it was dying and didn't see it, except for some sociologist at Wayne State University who predicted that Detroit was losing population by a half-million by the end of that '60s decade, and that that trend would continue taking away its tax base.” WellsEndsCountryStatesCitiesHalfMillionsRightsDyingCarTaxesMusic IsLosingLaborUniversityPopulationDecadesSellingCivil RightsTrendsDetroitWayneWondrousSociologistsSelling More Author:David Maraniss
“I was 18, and I either wanted to go to university in the States, and experience it like how it is in the movies - you know, date a cheerleader, be the coolest guy on campus - or I wanted to take a year and focus on what I wanted to do. I got into all the universities I applied to, but I took a year off anyway and said, let's see what happens.” KnowsYearsSaidStatesHappensWantedGuyFocusUniversityCampusCheerleader Author:Tinie Tempah
“In the economy today, everybody understands that we need a well educated workforce. This is 2016. When we talk about public education, it can no longer be K through 12th grade. I do believe that public colleges and universities should be tuition free.” NeedsShouldBelieveWellsTodayEconomyCollegeUniversityEducatedGradesWorkforcePublic EducationTuitionWell EducatedColleges And UniversitiesEconomy Today Author:Bernie Sanders
“Now all of the ideas that I'm talking about, they are not radical ideas. Making public colleges and universities tuition free, that exists in countries all over the world, used to exist in the United States. Rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, and creating 13 million jobs by doing away with tax loopholes that large corporations now enjoy by putting their money into the Cayman Islands and other tax havens. That is not a radical idea.” WorldIdeasCountryStatesJobsUsedEnjoyUnitedTalkingMillionsUnited StatesHavensCollegeTaxesCreatingUniversityRadicalCorporationsIslandsInfrastructureRebuildingCrumblingTuitionLoopholesColleges And UniversitiesRadical IdeasCayman IslandsCrumbling Infrastructure Author:Bernie Sanders
“Government's running the student loan program; what in the world could be wrong with it? If the government's running it, if Obama's taken it over, and he's got a lot of compassion, a big heart, loves people, what could possibly be wrong with it? And then the subject of tuition came up, and how come tuition never gets cut? Why does tuition always go up? Guarantee, folks, when you subsidize something, if you run a university and the government's gonna subsidize parts of your operation, why in the world should you cut anything?” PeopleIfsWorldShouldHeartDoeBigsGovernmentRunningCompassionTakenCuttingSubjectsStudentsProgramUniversityFolksOperationsGuaranteesLoanHeart LoveTuitionStudent LoanBig Heart Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If you don't have to pay for everything you're providing, why in the world should you cut the cost of it, when it's gonna be covered? That's what's happened to the health care system. Why cut costs when somebody's gonna subsidize whatever you charge. But there's another reason why tuitions are never gonna come down on major American universities, and that's because they are the training ground of American liberalism and radicalism. And they have to make jobs there attractive to the professors and the teachers who are gonna indoctrinate these young skulls full of mush.” IfsWorldShouldReasonCareJobsYoungPayTeacherCuttingHappenedCostMajorsTrainingUniversityHealth CareReason WhyAttractiveLiberalismCoveredProfessorsProvidingSkullsTuitionRadicalismHealth Care SystemAmerican Universities Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The education system is where young skulls full of mush are programmed and propagandized into the system. They are highly valuable. That's why they're subsidized. You know, universities are approaching the same circumstance we have in health care. What it costs is not related at all to market forces. Meaning what it costs is not related to what people can afford. You get right down to it, how many Americans, how many families can afford 20,000, 30,000, $50,000 a year or semester to send their kids off to college? It has to be subsidized.” PeopleKnowsYearsCareKidsYoungForceCollegeCircumstancesCostUniversityValuableHealth CareRelatedSkullsEducation SystemSemesterOff To College Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.” FictionInfluenceStrangeUniversityGenreDiscoveringPower Of LoveBlakeJoyceBorgesLovecraftYeatsJeterPinter Author:Hal Duncan
“What are the top 20 universities in the world that do good materials research that might create carbon fibers to do jet stream kites or new magnets that will allow [energy] generation to be done up there and you just bring the electricity down. You either have to bring down rotational energy, which is hard, or you have to have the generator up there and bring down the electricity. Well, putting the generator up there is hard to do because it's too heavy.” WorldWellsHardDoneMightEnergyGenerationsMaterialsResearchUniversityHeavyStreamsElectricityCarbonJetMagnetFiberKitesGenerator Author:Bill Gates
“The difference between you, if you consider yourself not enlightened, and an enlightened master is not that the enlightened master has more knowledge. University professors have knowledge, and many enlightened masters have very little knowledge. Jesus probably had less knowledge than any university professor alive today in terms of raw information. Even a relatively uneducated person has more information than Jesus or Buddha ever had about things, such as political things and so on.” IfsLittlesPersonsTodayPoliticalJesusTermDifferencesAliveInformationMastersUniversityEnlightenedProfessorsLive For TodayUneducatedMore KnowledgeLittle KnowledgeUniversity Professors Author:Eckhart Tolle
“I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was. We were reading an Edward Albee play, and - it was just a moment of accepting, certainly that I wasn't very worldly, but also that a lot of the plays that I'd been reading, let's say other kinds of family plays, were speaking a foreign language.” FeelsKindPlayMomentsRememberReadingLanguageAcceptingKnowingUniversityBrownNot KnowingWorldlyUnderdogForeign LanguageFreshmanWaspsBrown University Author:Stephen Karam
“I don't know anything about starting a university, and that was a fake university.There are people who borrowed $36,000 to go to Trump University, and they're suing now - $36,000 to go to a university. That's a fake school. And you know what they got? They got to take a picture with a cardboard cutout of Donald Trump. That's what they got for $36,000.” PeopleKnowsTrumpUniversityStartingFakeBorrowedSuing Author:Marco Rubio
“In a personal way, to do with family and the father-son relationship, in a kind of artistic way with regard to him being an art student. I also studied the visual arts at Lancaster University. I then decided to become an actor as he was becoming a musician. And then as an actor/performer, we have similar sort of interests - music hall and that whole world. So, there's a lot that I felt connected with.” WorldWayKindArtWholeActorsFatherFeltInterestStudentsSonBecomingMusicianDecidedRegardUniversityConnectedWhole WorldArtisticVisualsHallsPerformersFather SonVisual ArtArt StudentsLancasterFather Son RelationshipMusic Hall Author:Andy Serkis
“Nigeria was a blank on the map - there weren't even any maps. The US State Department, everyone said don't go there. It was courageous of Harvard University: the notion was that we would match Harvard students with Nigerian students, so that every student would have a guide, creating a guarantee of intimacy with the city.” SaidStatesCitiesStudentsCreatingNotionUniversityGuidesIntimacyGuaranteesDepartmentMapsCourageousBlankHarvardNigeriaHarvard University Author:Rem Koolhaas
“In Lagos there's a really strong case to resurrect strong parts. Embedded in all of it are some amazing pieces of planning, amazing pieces of engineering and interaction. For instance, the campus of Lagos University is stunningly beautiful, efficient and generous, and that needs to be recognised and preserved.” NeedsBeautifulStrongCasesPiecesUniversityPlanningInstanceGenerousEfficientInteractionEngineeringCampusEmbedded Author:Rem Koolhaas
“[Eric]Goldman [a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law] says back in the 1990s, courts began to confront the question of whether software code is a form of speech. Goldman says the answer to that question came in a case called Bernstein v. U.S. Department of Justice. Student Daniel Bernstein who created an encryption software called Snuffle. He wanted to put it on the Internet. The government tried to prevent him, using a law meant to stop the export of firearms and munitions. Goldman says the student argued his code was a form of speech.” GovernmentWantedSchoolFormLawJusticeAnswersCasesStudentsInternetSpeechCourtUniversityCodeDepartmentProfessorsSoftwareSantaEricFirearmsEncryptionClara Author:Laura Sydell
“Donald Trump is a world-class con artist. He conned all these people that signed up for Trump University. Now he's trying to do the same thing to Republican voters. He's trying to convince them that somehow he's the guy that is going to stand up to illegal immigration, but he hires illegal immigrants, that he's fighting for American workers, but he's hiring foreign workers for his hotels, that he's going to bring back jobs from China and from Mexico, but, in fact, he's creating jobs in China and Mexico, because that's where all of his suits and ties that he sells are made.” PeopleWorldTryingMadeFactsJobsArtistGuyFightingClassTrumpRepublicanCreatingSellsWorkersUniversityChinaImmigrationSuitsTiesConvinceHotelImmigrantsIllegalVotersMexicoHiringIllegal ImmigrantsIllegal ImmigrationWorld ClassAmerican WorkersCreating JobsCon ArtistSuits And Ties Author:Marco Rubio
“The future of the Democratic Party, the future of this country is involving young people in the political process, getting them to stand up for their rights, dealing with student debt, which I got to tell you is just crushing people all over this country, making public colleges and universities tuition free, those are the ideas we are bringing out, demanding the wealthy and large corporations start paying their fair share of taxes. This is what younger people, working class people want. That is the future of the Democratic Party.” PeopleWantIdeasCountryYoungPoliticalProcessPartyClassRightsShareStudentsCollegeTaxesFairsDemocraticUniversityDebtCorporationsCrushWealthyWorking ClassDemocratic PartyInvolvingTuitionFair ShareColleges And Universities Author:Bernie Sanders
“The drama school was in Oxford - and it's funny to think of it, but in those days when I started out the University was nearly all male. And they certainly weren't mixed.” ThinkingSchoolDramaMalesUniversityOxford Author:Maggie Smith
“When I went to university, I finally got exposed to European films, and they had a strong impact on me. I felt those films had a lot of things to say that weren't getting expressed in the films I was used to seeing.” FilmUsedStrongFeltSeeingImpactUniversityExposed Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“Over 60 percent of the university students in Iran are female. The women in Iran are better educated than men.” MenStudentsPercentFemaleUniversityEducatedIranUniversity Students Author:Shirin Ebadi
“I decided to do philosophy at university, with a view to becoming a professional philosopher. Being a rather unstable character, at some points I had doubts about becoming a professional philosopher, but the example of two of my teachers, Ezequiel de Olaso and Juan Rodriguez Larreta, made me confirm my original decision.” MadeTwoPhilosophyCharacterDecisionViewsDoubtTeacherExampleBecomingDecidedOriginalsUniversityPhilosopherUnstableJuan Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
“I'm very concerned about the increasing distortion of research by the intrusion of the market. Universities are beginning to see science as a means of attracting funds.” MeanResearchConcernedUniversityFundDistortionIntrusion Author:Philip Kitcher