“If you don't uphold your legal responsibility to enforce the First Amendment, to provide speakers with platforms and audiences with safe, the ability to listen to speakers of all different kinds, agnostic ideology, if you don't do that as a university, you are not performing your essential function.” IfsFirstsKindDifferentAbilityResponsibilityAudienceSafeEssentialsFunctionUniversityIdeologyPerformingDifferent KindsAmendmentsSpeakersPlatformsAgnosticFirst Amendment Author:Milo Yiannopoulos
“My dad was young. He went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. That didn't seem to be in the nature of - in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really. They were - we had a cousin that went to - off to Brown University. It was like a nuclear explosion took place.” WorldWarSeemsYoungParentDadMy FamilyUniversityMy DadFolksNuclearBrownTravelerCousinExplosionsBrown University Author:Bruce Springsteen
“To have a great university library near you with plenty of archives of all the journals that you want to research in the twentieth century is a remarkable asset, and I spend a day, maybe two days a week in that library. I just plain love it.” WantTwoWeekCenturyResearchLibraryUniversityPlentyRemarkableAssetsJournalTwentieth CenturyTwo DaysArchives Author:John Shelby Spong
“I began to read [Bible] as a critic, an in-house critic. So I got to a place where when I got to the university, I just couldn't reconcile that book and some of its points of view with stuff I was learning in my academic career. And so then you have a choice: either you give up your academic career and close your mind and become a constant fundamentalist, or you give up your religion and become a citizen of the modern world and get a modern education, or just spend the rest of your life balancing the two things together, forcing them into a dialogue.” WorldGivingMindTwoBookTogetherChoicesHouseStuffViewsCareersModernCitizensGiving UpConstantCriticsUniversityPoint Of ViewDialogueTwo ThingsAcademicModern WorldRest Of Your LifeReconcileFundamentalistModern Education Author:John Shelby Spong
“I've probably read maybe by now fifteen, twenty books on Matthew. I'd say the authors I like best are an English fellow named Michael Goulder, who taught at the University of Birmingham in England, and he writes about the Jewish background in Matthew's gospel, which is part of what I was just talking about, which is just really thrilling to me.” WritingBookTalkingTaughtEnglandTwentiesFellowsUniversityBackgroundsFifteenThrillingMatthewBirmingham Author:John Shelby Spong
“I want to invest in research. Research is great. Providing funding to universities and think tanks is great. But investing in companies? Absolutely not.” ThinkingWantCompanyResearchUniversityInvestingProvidingFundingTanks Author:Mitt Romney
“If you look at virtually all of the issues of importance to the people of America - issues like making public colleges and universities tuition-free - Hillary Clinton is now on record for doing that for people making $125,000 a year or less. You know what? That is pretty revolutionary. That will transform the lives of millions of families in this country. That's what Clinton stands for.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsLooksCountryAmericaMillionsIssuesRecordsCollegeImportanceClintonUniversityRevolutionaryTuitionColleges And Universities Author:Bernie Sanders
“I spoke at the University of Georgia, and a whole contingent of Tea Party people in Hell's Angels regalia came in and sat in the front and scowled at me while I gave my talk. And afterwards the head of the group got to the microphone and said, I'm surprised that I agree with almost everything you said, but I'm worried that you're a big government guy.” PeopleSaidWholeBigsGovernmentGuyPartyHellGroupsFrontsAngelAgreeUniversityTeaWorriedSatSpokesGeorgiaTea PartyMicrophonesBig Government Author:Bill Ayers
“Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was the churches, that part of civil society, which bought land, built schools, and employed and paid teachers. People like myself, right from grade eight up to university, I was in missionary schools.” PeopleCountryGovernmentSchoolInterestChurchTeacherLandBuiltPaidUniversityEightGradesMissionaryEmployedCivil Society Author:Nelson Mandela
“My friends from the University of Texas. I've had the same friends for over a decade. My brother films a lot; he usually edits my Workout Wednesdays. All the people who work on my projects are amazing.” PeopleFilmBrotherProjectsMy FriendsUniversityDecadesMy BrotherTexasWorkoutEditsWednesdayUniversity Of Texas Author:Zach Anner
“There was so much fake news in Wisconsin, that Scott Walker stuff, they had fake polls. The protests in Madison, which is where the University of Wisconsin is, perfect examples of the use of fake news, trying to make Walker - really they tried to dispirit Walker's supporters.” TryingUseStuffPerfectExampleNewsUniversityFakeProtestSupporterPollsWalkersMadisonWisconsin Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Of course, the Clintons are not only corrupt but cynical as well. They accept that the progressive media, the foundations, the universities, the bureaucracies, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley honor power more than trendy left-wing politics; they well understand that their fans will, for them, make the necessary adjustments to contextualize Clinton criminality or amorality.” WellsCoursesLeftAcceptingFansMediaHonorHollywoodFoundationWingsClintonUniversityProgressiveValleysCynicalBureaucracyAdjustmentLeft WingSiliconSilicon ValleyTrendyCriminalityAmorality Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“Brighton has two universities. It's got a massive young, middle-class community, and the largest gay community in the UK. The result of which is a huge recreational drug market. It's the favoured place to live in the UK for first division criminals.” FirstsTwoYoungCommunityResultsClassMiddleHugeGayDrugUniversityCriminalsMiddle ClassMassiveDivisionPlaces To LiveGay CommunityBrightonRecreational Drugs Author:Peter James
“The columnist like myself or people at Stanford University don't wake up in the morning and see their job outsourced. Yet we promote free markets. But we're not sensitive to what that does to other people who don't have our privilege.” PeopleDoeJobsMorningWake UpUniversityPrivilegeSensitiveFree MarketColumnistsStanfordStanford UniversityOutsourced Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“I think there's a group of students - whether it's the micro-aggression or the safe space or the trigger warning that garner a lot of attention - but that the fundamental issues that they're more interested in are - and I'll be very frank here - how much money do I pay for a unit? And what is that unit going to do for me when I'm graduating?And even though this is mostly in a progressive landscape, they're asking questions that have not been asked of the university. And the university can't supply answers to them.” ThinkingSpaceAnswersPayAttentionIssuesGroupsStudentsSafeAskingFundamentalsUniversityLandscapeProgressiveWarningGraduatesFrankAggressionUnitsTriggersAsking QuestionsSafe Space Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“In my late teens, like many a devout Catholic boy, I considered the priesthood and even went as far as discussing the idea at a seminary in Belfast but hesitated. I decided to focus on physics at university, another way perhaps to contemplate the mysteries of reality.” WayIdeasRealityBoysFocusMysteryLateDecidedCatholicUniversityPhysicsContemplatingTeensAnother WayDiscussingPriesthoodSeminaryBelfast Author:Stephen Curry
“I think I may have too much of a scientific mindset and am always looking for the caveats and qualifications in any situation. I never thought seriously of doing a PhD until relatively late in the day. I was always diligent at the book-work at university but the brightest amongst my friends all seemed to have a more intuitive grasp of the subject.” ThinkingMayBookSituationToo MuchSubjectsLateMy FriendsUniversityMindsetIntuitiveQualificationsDiligentPhds Author:Stephen Curry
“First of all, farmers should work with universities and research institutions in the country, and hopefully with the government.” ShouldFirstsCountryGovernmentResearchInstitutionsUniversityHopefullyFarmers Author:Wangari Maathai
“There is no reason why a company like Monsanto, for example, that is pushing GMOs, cannot go to Kenya, partner with the university, partner with the research institutions, and try to promote - in a responsible way - advanced techniques to help farmers. But this should be done in such a way that the farmers' livelihoods are not undermined because the government is irresponsible or careless, or because it is compromised.” WayShouldTryingReasonDoneHelpingGovernmentCompanyExampleResearchResponsibleInstitutionsUniversityTechniquePartnersReason WhyNo ReasonPushingFarmersCarelessIrresponsibleLivelihoodKenyaGmosMonsanto Author:Wangari Maathai
“Monsanto will not come empty-handed. Monsanto will come with a big bag of money. And because these governments are poor, when they are shown money for their research institutions, for their universities, for their professors, they are very quick to say yes, and I can tell you that when Monsanto came to Kenya, they were able to be given permission to do research in one of our research institutions, and yet there was not a single law to control such research.” I CanBigsGovernmentAbleLawGivenPoorResearchEmptyInstitutionsUniversityBagsProfessorsPermissionKenyaMonsanto Author:Wangari Maathai
“Why did the people think [Vietnam war] was fundamentally wrong and immoral? The guys who ran the polls, John E. Rielly, a professor at the University of Chicago, a liberal professor, he said what that means is that people thought too many Americans had being killed. Another possibility is they didn't like the fact that we were carrying out the worst crime since the Second World War. But that's so inconceivable that wasn't even offered as a possible reason.” PeopleThinkingWorldMeanSaidWarReasonFactsGuyWorstCrimePossibilityUniversityRanWar Of The WorldsChicagoProfessorsVietnamImmoralPollsVietnam WarSecond World War Author:Noam Chomsky
“International "experts" from technical assistance agencies or universities can make important contributions, but they certainly don't have all the answers. When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.” ImportantTogetherChanceAnswersGreaterProgramRootsInnovationUniversityInternationalVariousLocalsExpertsAgencyContributionWorking TogetherOwnershipAssistanceStakeholderImportant Contributions Author:Ruth Simmons
“When I studied computer science at Duke University in the first half of the 1980s, I had professors who treated women differently than men. I kind of got used to it. At Microsoft, I had to use my elbows and make sure I spoke up at the table, but it was an incredibly meritocratic place. Outside, in the industry, I would feel the sexism. I'd walk into a room and until I proved my worth, everyone would assume that the guy presenting with me had credibility and I didn't.” MenFeelsFirstsKindUseUsedGuyWalksRoomsHalfIndustryComputerTablesAssumingUniversityTreatedSpokesSexismProfessorsCredibilityMicrosoftPresentingComputer ScienceDukesElbowsDuke University Author:Melinda Gates
“A university shouldn't be a place of comfort. It should be a place of discomfort because you want to disabuse these kids of whatever prejudices or preconceptions they have when they come. You're trying to get them to think and develop, not be a Johnny-one-note.” ThinkingWantShouldTryingKidsComfortPrejudiceNotesUniversityDiscomfortPreconceptions Author:Charles Koch
“The essence of a university is free and open inquiry, and when it loses that it is no longer a university.” LosesEssenceUniversityInquiry Author:Charles Koch
“The remarks that [Steven] Lerner gave at Pace University: "'Unions are almost dead. We cannot survive doing what we do but the simple fact of the matter is community organizations are almost dead also. And if you think about what we need to do it may give us some direction which is essentially what the folks that are in charge - the big banks and everything - what they want is stability.'" So we have "'to destabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild a movement'".” IfsThinkingWantNeedsGivingMayMatterFactsBigsCommunitySimpleMovementOrganizationUnionsUniversityFolksPaceStabilityRemarks Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I didn't like university life much at Bologna. The subjects I studied - economics and business administration - didn't interest me. I wanted to make films. I was glad when I was graduated. Yet it's odd; on graduation day, I was overcome with a terrible sadness. I realized that my youth was over and now the struggle had begun.” WantedFilmInterestStruggleSadnessSubjectsYouthTerribleEconomicsOvercomingUniversityI RealizedGladAdministrationOddGraduation DayBolognaBusiness Administration Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“Building great public schools and universities, a strong health care system, including keeping the Affordable Care Act, and then an economy that works well for people so that when they put in a hard day's work, they can support themselves and their family members. Those are the fundamentals that have distinguished America from other nations in the world.” PeopleWorldWellsHardCareSchoolAmericaStrongNationsSupportEconomyBuildingMembersFundamentalsIncludingUniversityHealth CarePublic SchoolDistinguishedAffordableFamily MembersHealth Care SystemAffordable Care ActHard Days Author:Joaquin Castro
“The demands of the economy, and more recently those of political correctness and the diktat against ever offending anyone, are not conducive to a classroom or university seminar climate in which genuinely free and critical reflection on how to live prospers.” PoliticalEconomyDemandReflectionClimateUniversityCriticalClassroomPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessOffendingSeminarsCritical Reflection Author:David E. Cooper
“Like Nietzsche, Heidegger also gave up on the prospect that schools and universities would nurture the kind of reflective openness to the way of things that, certainly by the 1940s, he identified with authentic thinking. The authentic person is not the Promethean, iron-willed figure that pops up in Nietzsche, but someone more like the Daoist sages whom Heidegger admired.” ThinkingWayKindPersonsSchoolFiguresUniversityPopsIronOpennessNurtureSageGave UpHeidegger Author:David E. Cooper
“Trudeau motivated people between the ages of 18 to 35 to vote, and 82 per cent of them voted for him. That changed Canadian politics forever. If they stay motivated, and believe me, they are, no party can ever get a majority mandate again without winning at least 60 per cent of those voters. There hasn't been a Conservative candidate in 15 years that ever got on a campus anywhere here in any Canadian university and wasn't thrown stones at.” PeopleIfsYearsBelieveAgeWinningPartyForeverChangedStonesVoteMajorityUniversityConservativeCandidatesThrownVotersMotivatedCentsBelieve In MeCampusMandatesStay Motivated Author:Kevin O'Leary
“I have a story here, and it dovetails with this. You won't believe this. At Ohio State, the Ohio State University, you have to know the rules before you decide to kiss somebody. Both sides have to know the rules. Not kidding.” KnowsBelieveStatesStoriesSidesKissingUniversityBoth SidesOhioOhio StateOhio State University Author:Rush Limbaugh
“At Ohio State University, to avoid being guilty of 'sexual assault' or 'sexual violence,' you and your partner now apparently have to agree on the reason WHY you are making out or having sex. It's not enough to agree to DO it, you have to agree on WHY: there has to be agreement 'regarding the who, what, where, when, why, and how this sexual activity will take place.” StatesReasonEnoughSexViolenceActivityAgreeUniversityPartnersGuiltyReason WhyAgreementAssaultOhioSexual AssaultHaving SexOhio StateOhio State University Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There's a reason why at most major universities and colleges the female-male enrollment is so out of whack. Thirty-five percent male versus 65% female. It used to be just the exact opposite. There's a reason.” ReasonUsedFiveCollegeMajorsPercentFemaleOppositesMalesUniversityUsed To BeReason WhyThirtyVersusEnrollment Author:Rush Limbaugh
“At 16, I got a part-time job selling double-glazing door to door. That was soul destroying but the worst part-time job I did was at university working on reception in a sexually transmitted disease clinic. Because no one else wanted to do it, they paid £8 an hour.” SoulWantedJobsHoursDoorsWorstDiseasePaidUniversitySellingDestroyingSexuallyReceptionClinicPart TimePart Time JobsSexually Transmitted Diseases Author:Kate Thornton
“I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing what period a line comes from) this is almost paralysing. In America, in University, we read - what? - T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Yeats, that is where we began. Shakespeare flaunted in the background. I'm not sure I agree with this, but I think that' for the young poet, the writing poet, it is not quite so frightening to go to university in America as it is in England, for these reasons.” ThinkingWritingReasonWholeAmericaYoungLinesKnowingPoetPeriodsCriticismEnglandAgreeHistoricalUniversityPracticalsBackgroundsNot SureFrighteningEmphasisDylanEliotYeats Author:Sylvia Plath
“Corporations that are turning over these huge profits can own everything: the media, the universities, the mines, the weapons industry, insurance hospitals, drug companies, non-governmental organisations. They can buy judges, journalists, politicians, publishing houses, television stations, bookshops and even activists. This kind of monopoly, this cross-ownership of businesses, has to stop.” KindHouseCompanyMediaTelevisionMinesJudgingHugeIndustryPoliticianDrugWeaponsCrossesUniversityProfitJournalistCorporationsStationsHospitalsActivistPublishingOwnershipMonopolyOrganisationBookshopsDrug CompaniesPublishing House Author:Arundhati Roy
“I studied English literature at university, but for some reason we only spent one week on [Charles] Dickens, so I remember just trying to find the shortest book that I could find. I was like, "'Hard Times,' really great - it's short, that'll do it."” TryingBookHardReasonRememberLiteratureWeekUniversityHard TimesReally GreatDickensEnglish Literature Author:Felicity Jones
“I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool.” ThinkingUniversityVirginiaDickensJoyceWoolf Author:Felicity Jones
“The university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain social class in power; and to exclude the instruments of power of another social class.” WayMadeCertainSocialClassTeachingInstrumentsUniversitySocial Class Author:Michel Foucault
“The invitation come from some institution who really involving so-called my own profession, these fields. And then different universities or education sort of institution, I feel that is the place where the awareness of these things to start and to spread a more human community. So then on that level, yes, I have some obligation.” FeelsHumansDifferentCommunityMy OwnLevelsAwarenessFieldsInstitutionsUniversitySpreadProfessionObligationInvitationsInvolving Author:Dalai Lama
“On a more personal note we in this country we have a very tragic situation occur at one of our universities and, it really has taken the country aback and there's a real grieving process that we're going through, And going through it mourning and learning about the victims and-learning about it and showing our support, you know, I hesitate to say, how does your country handle what is that type of carnage on a daily basis?” KnowsDoeRealCountryProcessSituationSupportTakenTypeBasesVictimNotesUniversityHandleGrievingMourningTragicSupport YouCarnageGrieving Process Author:Jon Stewart
“There are a lot of young Canadians who want to be politically active at their college or their university who can't go to the party convention, who can't take part in politics, because they're holding down a job to pay their tuition. These are kids who want to do public service, who want to get involved politically, but their financial situation is precarious.” WantKidsJobsYoungPartyPaySituationCollegeInvolvedUniversityFinancialActiveConventionsGet InvolvedPublic ServicePrecariousTuition Author:Michael Ignatieff
“There are hundreds and thousands of young Americans who cannot or will not receive an education, because in order to get an education, you have to spend money. Students come out of college and universities with unbelievable debt. It's not right, it's not fair, and it's not just, in a society such as ours. And those dollars are not going to the teachers.” YoungOrderTeacherStudentsCollegeFairsDollarsUniversityDebtUnbelievableNot FairColleges And Universities Author:John Lewis
“I believe that teachers - whether in elementary schools, at the secondary level, or at colleges and universities - every teacher deserves the Nobel Peace Prize just for maintaining order in our schools!” BelieveSchoolOrderI BelieveLevelsTeacherCollegeDeserveUniversityPrizeMaintainingNobelElementary SchoolColleges And UniversitiesNobel Peace PrizeMaintaining Order Author:John Lewis
“When I started playing music at East Tennessee State University I would sit on a stool with a tip jar in front of me and play four hours a night at a college bar called Quarterback's Barbecue. I wasn't thinking about doing it for a living. I was just making enough money to go to Taco Bell every day. People were eating chips, drinking beer and not listening to me. I'd had three or four years of people ignoring me, and I'd kind of gotten used to it.” PeopleThinkingYearsKindStatesEnoughPlayUsedNightThreeHoursFourFrontsCollegeListeningEatingDrinkingUniversityEastBarsBeerFour YearsBellsChipsJarsPlaying MusicQuarterbackTennesseeBarbecueDrinking BeerStoolsTacosTaco BellIgnore MeEast Tennessee Author:Kenny Chesney
“How did the Turks become Muslim? They became Muslim through the Sufis. The Arabs never conquered the Turks. There were people in early Islam who were speaking like Hallaj, who spoke about the Truth, about reaching the Truth, about being one with the Truth, and not only they were not killed, but they were great heroes of their own culture, and there is a university in Turkey named after one [Sufi Saint.]” PeopleCultureHeroIslamUniversitySaintReachingSpokesSufiTurkeysGreat Hero Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“Eventually I gave up teaching at the St. Paul Gallery because of disagreements with the philosophy of that museum, and I got a job at the University of Minnesota, which was very fortunate because it was a part-time job and that gave us a great deal of time in our studio to work together and to make the pots we wanted to make.” PhilosophyWantedTogetherJobsDealsTeachingUniversityStudiosFortunateWorking TogetherMuseumsPotDisagreementGalleryGave UpMinnesotaPart TimePart Time Jobs Author:Warren MacKenzie
“What has happened to Africa is very severe. We are talking about the collapse of this and the collapse of that, of good government, of the economy particularly. And this has hit education badly. The news you get from the universities in Nigeria is often appalling. I don't think a lot of it gets out. There is the obsession with cults and all kinds of dreadful things going on and all this is taking its toll and it is not surprising that quality of students and graduates who come out is not good. It will not be surprising if this shows in the quality of work they do.” IfsThinkingKindShowsGovernmentQualityTalkingEconomyHappenedStudentsNewsUniversityObsessionAll KindsGraduatesSurprisingCollapseSevereCultNigeriaTollsQuality Work Author:Chinua Achebe
“We are lucky in the United States to have our liberal arts system. In most countries, if you go to university, you have to decide for all English literature or no literature, all philosophy or no philosophy. But we have a system that is one part general education and one part specialization. If your parents say you've got to major in computer science, you can do that. But you can also take general education courses in the humanities, and usually you have to.” IfsArtCountryStatesPhilosophyHumanityCoursesLiteratureParentCan DoUnitedUnited StatesLuckyComputerMajorsUniversityComputer ScienceEnglish LiteratureSpecializationLiberal ArtsGeneral Education Author:Martha C. Nussbaum