“Many of these failures can be laid at the feet of the awful state of American higher education, and especially the way in which our secular universities have divorced their instruction from timeless truths like faith and freedom. Many of the professors at these places plainly don't respect the founders and, in particular, the religious foundation of the founders.” WayStatesReligiousFeetParticularHigherFoundationUniversityAwfulProfessorsInstructionFoundersSecularTimelessDivorcedHigher Education Author:Paul Kengor
“I was a Ph.D. student at a very reputable university, I was a Harvard research associate at one of the world's premier leadership institutions.” WorldStudentsResearchInstitutionsUniversityAssociatesHarvard Author:Paula Broadwell
“As a health scientist at Columbia University, Les Roberts, pointed out, sooner or later people are going to be looking at a child in a wheelchair suffering from polio and will say 'the Americans did that to him'. So they continue policies which have similar effects i.e. organising the Taliban. This will come back to them too.” PeopleChildrenSufferingEffectsPolicyScientistUniversitySooner Or LaterTalibanColumbiaWheelchairsPolioColumbia University Author:Noam Chomsky
“The Nike swash that cost $30 and was designed by a Portland State University art student was probably worth that when she first showed it to them. At that point it had no equity at all. None of the guys commissioning it particularly liked it, they all wanted the Adidas three stripes and they thought that was a good logo.” FirstsArtStatesWantedGuyThreeStudentsCostUniversityEquityStripesLogosNikePortlandAdidasArt Students Author:Michael Bierut
“ACID Kreationz was founded in 2008. I formed this business with the purpose of paying my university tuition because my teaching salary would not be able to cover school payments.” AbleSchoolPurposeTeachingUniversitySalaryPaymentAcidTuition Author:St. Lucia
“For now ACID Kreationz has only one body and that's me. I have intentions of hiring persons when I am through with university. For now it is only me but off and on I contract sound producers and other persons when the need arises.” NeedsPersonsBodySoundIntentionUniversityAriseProducersContractsAcidHiring Author:St. Lucia
“There's a strange myth of Anglo-Saxonism. When the University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson, for example, its law school offered the study of "Anglo-Saxon Law." And that myth of Anglo-Saxonism carries right over into the early twentieth century.” SchoolLawStudyCenturyExampleStrangeUniversityMythCarrieTwentieth CenturyVirginiaLaw SchoolAnglo Saxon Author:Noam Chomsky
“If you take a look at places like Harvard, it's striking. In the early ,50s, I think there were a handful of Jewish professors, three or four. But by the 1960s, there were Jewish deans and administrators. In fact, one of the reasons why MIT became a great university was because they admitted Jews whereas Harvard did not.” IfsThinkingLooksReasonFactsThreeFourUniversityJewReason WhyProfessorsHandful1960sHarvardDeanAdministratorsMit Author:Noam Chomsky
“I received my Master's degree from the University of Utah while coaching at Granite High School. I obtained my doctorate from BYU while coaching. I pursued these degrees to prepare myself if coaching didn't work out.” IfsSchoolMastersDegreesHigh SchoolUniversityWork OutCoachingPursuedUtahGraniteDoctoratesByu Author:LaVell Edwards
“I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.” GivingI CanAmericaReturnInfiniteUniversityHospitalsRealisingAvailability Author:Quentin Crisp
“For 35 years, Frank Cross held one of the most prestigious chairs in academia: the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University. I believe that's the third oldest university chair in the country.” YearsBelieveCountryLanguageI BelieveCrossesThirdsUniversityChairsProfessorsFrankHarvardHebrewAcademiaPrestigiousHarvard University Author:Hershel Shanks
“I've been on a faculty in a university, and I felt it was incumbent on me to deal with the Bible not as something I was attempting to convert people to, or to have them enter into my religious experience, but rather as an academic and scientific discipline.” PeopleFeltReligiousDealsDisciplineUniversityFacultyAcademicAttemptingIncumbentsReligious Experience Author:Hershel Shanks
“Let's do 150 stops. Let's go to 75 universities, and let's spread this gospel of Internet entrepreneurship everywhere we go.” InternetUniversitySpreadEntrepreneurship Author:Alexis Ohanian
“If I'm at the University of Georgia and I can't inspire this room full of students, OK, fine. I'm not going to take it personally. Maybe a little bit, but I'll be all right.” IfsLittlesI CanBitsRoomsStudentsInspireFineLittle BitUniversityGeorgia Author:Alexis Ohanian
“Fiction writers have their own world, and poets have their own world, and literary criticism has sort of passed over into cultural studies in the university, and so on. They seem more disconnected from each other than they did when I first began to write.” WorldWritingFirstsSeemsFictionStudyPoetCriticismUniversityFiction WritersDisconnectedLiterary Criticism Author:Robert Hass
“An important Italian critic once gave Fistful of Dollars a very bad review when it came out. Then he went to the university here [Rome] with Once Upon a Time in America. We showed it to 10,000 students. And while the man was speaking that day to the students, with me present, he said, "I have to state one thing. When I gave that review about Sergio's films, I should have taken into account that on Sergio Leone's passport, there should not be written whether the nationality is Italian or anything else. What should be written is: 'Nationality: Cinema.' "” MenShouldSaidImportantStatesAmericaFilmTakenWrittenOne ThingStudentsHe ManShould HaveAccountsDollarsCriticsUniversityCinemaReviewsItalianRomeNationalityOnce Upon A TimePassportsBad ReviewsSergio Leone Author:Sergio Leone
“Bill Heseltine had been at university with me, at the University of Western Australia. I knew him well.” WellsBillsWesternUniversityAustralia Author:Bob Hawke
“You can play guitar in your canteen, you know, your hair might be longer, but there's a lot more to playing than travelling around universities and things.” KnowsPlayMightHairGuitarUniversityCanteen Author:Syd Barrett
“The irony is that [Barack] Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that what he is doing weakens the Constitution.” KnowsLawConstitutionUniversityBarackIronyChicagoProfessors Author:Nat Hentoff
“I mean a real police state just to get a token recognition of a law. It take, it took, I think, 15,000 troops and 6 million dollars to put one negro in the University of Mississippi. That's a police action, police state action.” ThinkingMeanRealStatesActionLawMillionsPoliceDollarsUniversityRecognitionTroopsMillion DollarsMississippiTokensPolice State Author:Malcolm X
“Essien Udom is a Nigerian. At present he's a professor at Ibadan University.” UniversityProfessors Author:Malcolm X
“Carl Armstrong was one of those people in the anti-war years who had been so convinced of the righteousness of their cause that he and some friends decided they would blow up a building at the University of Wisconsin, in which they said research was being done to help the war against the Vietnamese. What they blew up at three or four in the morning was a young scientist, who was married and had a couple of kids, who wasn't working on war stuff at all. And he was killed.” PeopleYearsSaidWarDoneHelpingKidsYoungThreeCausesStuffMorningFourBuildingCoupleMarriedResearchDecidedScientistUniversityBlowConvincedRighteousnessAnti WarThey SaidBeing DoneArmstrongWisconsinVietnamese Author:Nat Hentoff
“Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesAuthorityUniversityDoctrine Author:Noam Chomsky
“I don't really see what can be said about the role of faculty members, or universities, beyond the truisms voiced earlier, and their elaboration in various domains, ranging from focused intellectual pursuits to the concerns of the larger society and future generations.” SaidRolesGenerationsMembersIntellectualConcernUniversityVariousFocusedPursuitFacultyDomainFuture GenerationTruismFaculty Members Author:Noam Chomsky
“In the sciences particularly the large public universities must and do take an active role in fostering creativity and independence; otherwise the fields will wither, and along with them even the aspirations of wealth and power.” WealthRolesCreativityFieldsIndependenceUniversityActiveAspirationFostering Author:Noam Chomsky
“In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.” FallBehindsCreativityIndependenceUniversityContraryFostering Author:Noam Chomsky
“Personally, I am uneasy about the notion of "a politically engaged university," for reasons I wrote about over 30 years ago, at the height of protest and resistance (reprinted in For Reasons of State).” YearsStatesReasonYears AgoNotionUniversityResistanceHeightEngagedProtestUneasy Author:Noam Chomsky
“I felt that we could hardly improve on the conception of the university expressed by one of the founders of the modern system, Wilhelm von Humboldt, also one of the founders of classical liberalism. That seems to me true today as well, though ideals of course have to be adapted to changing circumstances.” WellsSeemsTodayCoursesFeltModernCircumstancesIdealsUniversityLiberalismConceptionFoundersAdaptedClassical Liberalism Author:Noam Chomsky
“Individuals in a university - students, faculty, staff - can choose to become politically engaged, and a free university should foster a climate in which those are natural choices.” ShouldChoicesIndividualNaturalStudentsClimateUniversityEngagedFacultyStaffUniversity Students Author:Noam Chomsky
“Insofar as the universities are free and independent, they will also be "subversive," in the sense that dominant structures of power and their ideological support will be subjected to challenge and critique, a counterpart to attitudes that are fostered in the hard sciences wherever they are taken seriously.” HardChallengesAttitudeSupportTakenIndependentStructureUniversityDominantCritiqueIdeologicalSubversiveCounterparts Author:Noam Chomsky
“It is one thing for the institution to offer space for serious engagement, in thought and action, and to encourage free and independent use of such opportunities; it is something else for the university to become engaged as an institution, beyond a fairly narrow range where true consensus exists, and even that raises questions.” UseActionOpportunitySpaceOne ThingSeriousOffersIndependentRaisesInstitutionsUniversityRangeEngagedEngagementConsensusThoughts And ActionsRaises Questions Author:Noam Chomsky
“I was recruited by a number of schools including Miami University, University of Kentucky, University of Cincinnati, Indiana university, West Virginia University as well as others.” WellsSchoolNumbersWestIncludingUniversityVirginiaMiamiIndianaKentuckyWest Virginia Author:Graham Taylor
“I always dreamed of playing for the UK since I grew a huge UK fan but once I started visiting schools I fell in love with Miami University and decided it was the right place for me.” SchoolFansHugeGrewDecidedUniversityRight PlaceVisitingMiami Author:Graham Taylor
“It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.” MayStatesStrongCasesSourceTaxesPropertyLibraryUniversityAcademicComponentsFundingPublic LibraryTuitionProperty Taxes Author:Tom Peters
“Many flagship state universities have wonderful digital libraries that are accessed by people around the world. In future, if not current, budget crises, trustees, board members, and administrators may wonder why these state institutions - with an articulated primary clientele of students, faculty, and staff members and a secondary clientele of all citizens of the state - should be spending resources on a digital library that is used by many people beyond the primary and secondary service populations.” PeopleIfsWorldShouldMayStatesUsedWonderWonderfulStudentsCitizensMembersResourcesCrisisInstitutionsLibraryUniversityPopulationCurrentsSpendingAround The WorldPrimariesBudgetsBoardsDigitalFacultyStaffAdministratorsTrusteesBoard MembersStaff Members Author:Tom Peters
“I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.” ThinkingStudyTheoryUniversityCriticalDuesPostsTheoreticalVacuumsAmerican UniversitiesCritical Theory Author:Susan Sontag
“If we can't have an open and honest debate about the value of ideas in a university in Glasgow, or Boston, or anywhere else in the world, then where are they going to go?” IfsWorldIdeasValuesHonestUniversityDebateBostonGlasgow Author:Edward Snowden
“I want to spend my time at colleges and universities.” WantCollegeUniversityMy TimeColleges And Universities Author:Kevin O'Leary
“To make [parents] happy, I went to Fordham University for three weeks, while at the same time running ads in Variety, "magician-actor David Copperfield."” RunningThreeActorsParentWeekUniversityVarietyAdsMagician Author:David Copperfield
“I would regret it if I'd failed at school and university, because if I had, I would have lacked the levels of education necessary to making a serious contribution to building South Africa.” IfsSchoolLevelsBuildingSeriousRegretSouthUniversityContributionSouth Africa Author:Thabo Mbeki
“I was very fortunate to be able to go to school and university, because many people our age couldn't complete school. This gift of education must be used in whatever ways we can to uplift the people.” PeopleWayAgeAbleSchoolUsedUniversityUpliftingFortunate Author:Thabo Mbeki
“Once I spoke about this subject among a group of English intellectuals. One of them was a professor on Roman Law at one of the leading British universities. I asked him,what was the official language of the Byzantine Empire? He said, maybe sometime in the sixth or the seventh century.The Justinian Codex, the rule of law in the Byzantine Empire which was produced by Emperor Justinian, it was written in Latin.And he looked at me ,he knew that I knew already that the only original copy was found in the beginning of the sixteenth century.” SaidLawFoundLanguageWrittenGroupsSubjectsCenturyOriginalsUniversityBritishOfficialsEmpiresSpokesCopiesLatinProfessorsEmperorRule Of LawByzantineJustinian Author:Garry Kasparov
“The only thing I like about St. Louis is it has the best zoo in America, in Forest Park. Washington University is next door to the zoo. Animals get out, they're going to eat white people before they get to the ghetto!” PeopleAmericaNextWhiteAnimalDoorsUniversityForestsParksGhettoZoos Author:Dick Gregory
“We live in the age of communication. Write letters to the editor. Speak to your congressman, to your senator. If you are young, especially young people are taken by this human rights activities. They should organize the universities.” PeopleIfsShouldWritingHumansAgeYoungSpeakTakenRightsCommunicationActivityLettersUniversityHuman RightsEditorsSenatorsOrganizeCongressmanLetters To The Editor Author:Elie Wiesel
“The Babson Institute, which is now an actual university, was started by this guy [my father] who also had a problem with believing in gravity. And so he started the Babson Institute in New Boston, New Hampshire, which then moved to Gloucester. Each year they have a competition of one thousand dollars for one thousand words of an essay on gravity. That's the way they do it.” WayYearsBelieveProblemGuyFatherThousandMovedDollarsCompetitionUniversityGravityEssaysThis GuyBostonInstituteHampshireNew HampshireGloucester Author:Paul Laffoley
“I really wanted to study with Bruce Goff [one of the masters of "organic architecture"] at the University of Oklahoma.” WantedStudyMastersUniversityArchitectureOklahomaOrganic Architecture Author:Paul Laffoley
“I belong to the Lovecraft Society, which meets at the University. They do things like follow in Lovecraft's footsteps, just like he followed in Edgar Allan Poe's footsteps. I mean the actual footfalls, you know, like they're going out looking for sasquatch, this kind of stuff.” KnowsKindMeanStuffUniversityGoing OutFootstepsLovecraftAllan PoeSasquatch Author:Paul Laffoley
“I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, the order.” WholeOrderLanguageTeachUniversityConstructionDeconstructionSemester Author:Jay Mohr
“I think reading intelligent expressions of different points of view is a good thing, and there is a way in which being in academia in a classroom at the University probably gives you, can give you an academic view of things, and reading actual real time debates about what should we do in Syria or the Buffett rule, budget issues...gives you a kind of sense that's hard to get in a classroom.” ThinkingWayGivingShouldKindDifferentRealHardReadingViewsIssuesExpressionIntelligentGood ThingsUniversityPoint Of ViewDebateBudgetsAcademicClassroomSyriaAcademiaDifferent Points Of ViewBuffett Author:William Kristol
“We have students at the university say on a regular basis, "You're asking us to think and no one has ever done that in school."” ThinkingDoneSchoolStudentsBasesAskingUniversity Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson