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“I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.”

Levels University Sympathy

Author:Terry Pratchett

“The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.”

Mind University Agendas Deceiving Open Mind

Author:Dennis Prager

“The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.”

Art Done America Culture Left Europe University Minorities Ruining It

Author:Dennis Prager

“Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.”

People Has Beens States Left Generations Media Produce Capitalism University Selfish Welfare Free Market Mantras Welfare State Selfish People

Author:Dennis Prager

“Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.”

School Left Teach College Perspective High School University Significant Elementary School Colleges And Universities

Author:Dennis Prager

“On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.”

Practice Century Policy New York Grew Grew Up Bases Structure Presses University Financial London Foreign Policy Twentieth Century

Author:Carroll Quigley

“Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.”

University Very Good Theatre These Days Department

Author:Tony Randall

“The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.”

Art Country Might Jobs Interesting Happened Worst University Department Brooklyn

Book:Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

“There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, where I live, to University R&D labs, to countless Main Street small business owners, Americans are taking risks, embracing new ideas and - most importantly - creating jobs.”

“Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.”

School Company Majors Scientist University Mainstream Tied Consulting

Author:Jeremy Rifkin

“I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.”

Stills Stories Knowing Design Draws Decided University Boards Cartoonist Movie Making Design Work

Author:Robert Rodriguez

“I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to get the neighbors to come out, put some ketchup on them.”

Young Easy University Neighbor Filmmaker Conventions Zombie Easy To Get Ketchup Zombie Movie

Author:George A. Romero

“I was born in New York, so I'd love to study at New York University.”

Born Study New York University

Author:Saoirse Ronan

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”

“Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.”

Long Novel Journey University Locals Extremist Long Journey Mumbai Syllabus

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.”

Philosophy College University Paradise Oxford

Book:Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana

Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana

“The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.”

Doe Age Middle Reflection University Philosopher Tendencies Germany Humane Middle Ages Scholastics

Book:Character and Opinion in the United States

Source: Character and Opinion in the United States

“After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.”

States Bigs Values Enemy Media College Red University Red Lips Colleges And Universities

Author:Phyllis Schlafly

“After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.”

Art States Parent Dangerous Months Civilization University Combination Apartment Crystals Basements Conceptual Art Crystal Meth Methamphetamine

Book:Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.”

Political Majors University Political Science Delaware

Author:Joe Biden

“You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.”

Ifs Believe Ideas America I Believe Students College Speech University Uncomfortable Free Speech Controversial Campus College Campus

Author:Donna Shalala

“Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.”

Knows Found Majors University Nobody Knows Later In Life

Author:William Shatner

“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”

Art Philosophy School Funny Brain Education Fool Intellectual University Foolish Folly Superstitions Pedants Pedantry Philosophy Of Education Education For All Man And Superman University Education

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“At university I had a big coloured scarf and people would often say, 'All right, Doctor Who?' And, I thought, I rather liked that notion.”

People Bigs Doctors Notion University Doctor Who Scarves

Author:Matt Smith

“After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.”

Ifs Wanted Economic Economics University Allowing Graduates Vehicle Engineering Kansas

Book:Discovery - A Memoir

Source: Discovery - A Memoir

“People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.”

People Knows Ideas Bits Enjoy Creative Becoming Degrees University Accountants Creative Writers

Author:Wilbur Smith

“I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.”

Two Nations Community Crime Projects Raised University Violent Finest Housing Attorney Our Community Assistants Bronx Violent Crimes Prosecuting Public Housing

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.”

Waiting University Delighted

Author:Tom Stoppard

“I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged.”

People World Young Strong President Environment Security Youth Commitment University Around The World

Author:Maurice Strong

“There's always someone out there training for your spot. For my scholarship at the University of Florida, for my job with the Denver Broncos, for my position with the New York Jets. And that's the reason to get up earlier or stay up later.”

Reason Jobs New York Position Training University Get Up Spots Florida Scholarship Jet American Football Denver Broncos

Author:Tim Tebow

“Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.”

Political Liberty Learning Students Inspired University Critical Libertarian Ignorant Heritage Cynical Libertarianism Lacking

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.”

Ifs Looks Economy University Hungry Resumes Linux

Author:Linus Torvalds

“I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.”

University Employed Linux Helsinki

Author:Linus Torvalds

“Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to University of Yale, or someone who has lived in buses, in the Metro, in the street?”

Country Problem Guy Streets University Bus Oxford Yale Metro

Author:Gloria Trevi

“I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.”

Made Dream Felt Example Musician University Made It

Author:Eddie Vedder

“I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.”

Thinking Men Years Real Sleep Situation Knowing Dad Racism Years Ago Towns South University My Dad Labour Serving Lions South Africa Not Knowing Real Men Councillors

Author:Johnny Vegas

“I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.”

Needs Mother Degrees University Finished Strict Recipes Florence

Author:Donatella Versace

“I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins, and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name with somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.”

Thinking Knows Names University Unfortunate

Author:David Walliams

“I just feel like if I start opening the door to talking about my university experience, then people just kind of... own everything. There was a lot of stuff a couple of years ago saying that I was bullied at Brown and awful things like that, none of which were true.”

People Ifs Feels Years Kind Stuff Talking Doors Couple Years Ago University Opening Awful Brown Bullied

Author:Emma Watson

“The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It's important to me to feel like I have my own life.”

Feels Made Important Bigs Differences My Own Industry University Entertainment Nuts My Own Life Entertainment Industry

Author:Emma Watson

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

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Author:Derek Bok

“Again and again, universities have put a low priority on the very programs and initiatives that are needed most to increase productivity and competitiveness, improve the quality of government, and overcome the problems of illiteracy, miseducation, and unemployment.”

Problem Government Quality Needed Lows Program Overcoming Increase University Productivity Priorities Initiative Again And Again Unemployment Competitiveness Illiteracy

Book:Universities and the Future of America

Source: Universities and the Future of America

“The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.”

Ideas Hard Forever Hard Work Terrible University Productivity Tenure

Author:Jack Welch

“They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.”

Today Teach College Majors University Pie Mud Mud Pies

Author:Orson Welles

“We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.”

Way Inspirational Made Funny Literature Half Century Organization University Conception Graduates Graduation Half Way

Book:World brain

Source: World brain

“The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.”

Issues Creation College Tasks University Appreciation Rational Civilized Rational Thought

Book:Modes of Thought

Source: Modes of Thought

“I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.”

Wanted Creative Decided University Track Medical Dukes Nebraska Biochemistry Duke University

Author:Ken Wilber

“A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.”

Thinking Way Mind Turns Choices University Lifestyle Academic Offering Junk Junk Food Cafeteria

Author:George Will

“Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration.”

“So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.”

World Years Literature Views Known Evolution University Transformed Secular Alabama Freshman Freshman Year

Author:E. O. Wilson