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“The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.”

World Character Evil Imagination Position Eternal University Corruption Cruelty Delicate Splendid Suspended Delicate Things

Author:Richard Hofstadter

“At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.”

States Institutions Remains University Minorities Trends Texas Persistent Discouraging Berkeley Ucla Enrollment University Of Texas Uc Berkeley

Author:Adam Schiff

“I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.”

Teacher Degrees University Prophet

Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

“I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard.”

Gone Brother University Guidance My Brother Harvard Counselor Guidance Counselor

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.”

“American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.”

Inspirational Education Half Critics University Dull Faculty American Universities

Author:Edward Albee

“I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.”

Two Abuse Addiction University Substance Boards Addict Columbia Recovering Substance Abuse Columbia University

Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

“All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.”

States Black Students College University Southern Colleges And Universities

Author:Constance Baker Motley

“Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.”

Stills White Risk Willing University Mississippi

Author:Constance Baker Motley

“I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world”

Thinking World Stills Seems University Being The Best American Universities

Author:Clifford Geertz

“So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.”

School Choices Students Lucky University Medical Faculty Dedicated Scholarship Scholarly Medical School

Author:Daniel Nathans

“The United Nations, he told an audience at Harvard University, 'has not been able-nor can it be able-to shape a new world order which events so compellingly demand.' ... The new world order that will answer economic, military, and political problems, he said, 'urgently requires, I believe, that the United States take the leadership among all free peoples to make the underlying concepts and aspirations of national sovereignty truly meaningful through the federal approach.'”

“Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University”

Strong Teaching University

Author:Robert B. Parker

“I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.”

People Jobs Concepts University

Author:Rachel Cusk

“He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.”

Walks University Hallowed Ground

Author:James Bryant Conant

“Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.”

Nations Opinion Society Diversity University Loyalty Framework Free Society

Author:James Bryant Conant

“You know what FSU stands for, don't you? Free Shoes University.”

Knows Talking University Shoes Trash College Football Famous Coach Trash Talk Trash Talking Florida State

Book:Head Ball Coach

Source: Head Ball Coach

“But what I didnt want to have happen, and I made this clear to Jeremy (Florida AD), if I am able to go coach, I want to coach at one place, the University of Florida. It would be a travesty, it would be ridiculous to all of a sudden come back and get the feeling back, get the health back, feel good again and then all of a sudden go throw some other colors on my shirt and go coach? I dont want to do that. I have too much love for this University and these players and for what weve built.”

Ifs Want Feels Made Feelings Happens Would Be Able Clear Too Much Player Color Built University Coaches Ridiculous Feel Good Shirts Ads Florida Much Love Travesty

Author:Urban Meyer

“My career as a model. I was due to go to University. It was a risk but it was the right decision.”

Decision Careers Risk Models University Dues Right Decision

Author:Lucy Pinder

“Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the place where revolutionary feminist thought and feminist activism are submerged or made secondary to the goals of academic careerism”

Way Made Given Goal Study University Feminist Activism Revolutionary Academic Commodity Status Quo Submerged

Book:Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

Source: Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

“On his 916th game as coach at University of Alabama - I've been here so long that when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick.”

Long Games Sea Basketball Sick University Coaches Alabama

Author:Winfrey Sanderson

“Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.”

Ifs War Speak Connections University Civil War Grants General Grant

Author:Robert E. Lee

“I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.”

Way States Order Literature United United States Issues Teaching New York Needed Paper University Immigration Papers Stay Strong

Author:Manuel Puig

“Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.”

Distance University Traditional Classroom Campus

Author:Peter Drucker

“Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the powers of consumerism, the powers of greed and envy and pride. One of the most effective ways for this to come about would be for our universities to assume the awesome responsibility to both validate and educate those who want to be homecomers -- not necessarily to go home but to go someplace and dig in and begin the long search and experiment to become native.”

Source: Becoming Native to This Place

“In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.”

Facts Three Study Four Internet University Gambling Exposed Teens Gamer Connecticut

Author:Spencer Bachus

“I think we're vastly over-invested in universities. Universities should be relatively small and provide excellent education and research in a number of specialized areas. I think the vast majority of young people should be going through non-university, post-secondary training.”

People Thinking Should Young Numbers Training Research Areas Majority University Posts Excellent Excellent Education

Author:Stephen Harper

“Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.”

Giving Class University Atmosphere Agency Cia Reunion Yale Intelligence Agencies Class Reunion

Author:Gaddis Smith

“None of us went to university, none of us went to college, none of us played in a different band before, none of us done anything. We were the last great band to come out of nowhere, on an indie label. We've sold 50 million records. That's still the benchmark. Until someone does what we've done, I'll always consider myself the last big songwriter”

Doe Stills Different Done Bigs Lasts Millions Records College Band University Labels Songwriters

Author:Noel Gallagher

“Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California.”

World Parent My Own Views Relationship University Point Of View California Southern Southern California

Author:Josh Schwartz

“With leading research universities, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and private companies like Blue Sun working on developing alternative fuels, Colorado is poised to become an international leader in clean energy.”

Energy Company Leader Sun Research Blue Clean University International Alternatives Developing Fuel Laboratory Renewable Energy Colorado Clean Energy

Author:Ken Salazar

“France has a very important relationship with Germany. But that does not mean that we agree about everything or that two of our universities or companies are not going to compete.”

Mean Doe Two Important Company Relationship Agree University France Germany Important Relationships

Author:Jean-Pierre Raffarin

“Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to maintain a structure that cannot be maintained. The elite...know only how to feed the beast until it dies. Once it is dead, they will be helpless. Don't expect them to save us. They don't know how....and when it all collapses, when our rotten financial system with its trillions in worthless assets implodes and our imperial wars end in humiliation and defeat, the power elite will be exposed as being as helpless, and as self-deluded as the rest of us”

“I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.”

Years Firsts Teacher Taught Proud University Chemistry

Author:Roald Hoffmann

“I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.”

College Mathematics University Physics Awards Chemistry Abandoned Examination Scholarship October Trinity Cambridge Trinity College

Author:John Pople

“In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.”

Two University Visible Department Chemistry Professors Contrast Wisconsin Stanford Biochemistry Wisconsin Weather

Author:Paul D. Boyer

“In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.”

University Stores Evening Chemistry Chicago Weekend

Author:Jack Steinberger

“If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!”

Ifs Want Needs Sometimes Seems Difficult Understood Mathematics University Sensual Application Elegance

Author:Johnny Ball

“I refused this evening at Oxford University to debate with an Israeli, a supporter of the apartheid state of Israel. The reason is simple: no recognition, no normalisation. Just boycott, divestment and sanctions, until the apartheid state is defeated. I never debate with Israelis nor speak to their media. If they want to speak about Palestine – the address is the PLO.”

Ifs Want States Reason Speak Simple Media University Israel Debate Recognition Evening Addresses Defeated Supporter Palestine Israeli Sanctions Apartheid Oxford Boycott Oxford University

Author:George Galloway

“Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college.”

Years States School Moving Students College Return High School University California Immigrants Illegal Unfair Illegal Immigrants Tuition Colleges And Universities High School Students

Author:Elton Gallegly

“Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.”

Sports Memories College Baseball University My Time Texas Finest University Of Texas College Baseball

Author:Roger Clemens

“The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition.”

Play Sports Cities Rich Tradition University Texas University Of Texas

Author:Roger Clemens

“Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.”

Made School Sports High School University Made It Minnesota

Author:Dave Winfield

“We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.”

Knows Real Reason Order Students University Professors Educate

Author:John Archibald Wheeler

“The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.”

Enough School Poverty Path University Ladders Gutters Boon Stalwart

Book:The Great School Wars: A History of the New York City Public Schools

Source: The Great School Wars: A History of the New York City Public Schools

“Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.”

Ifs Hard Majors University Physics Rice Calculus

Author:Elizabeth Moon

“The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence?”

People Should Levels Expectations Excellence University Expecting Alabama Alabama Football

Author:Gene Stallings

“Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn.”

Sports Fans Football College University Coaches American Football Alabama Alabama Football Auburn

Author:Pat Dye

“Another picture I hope to be remembered by is this one of the drum major rehearsing at the University of Michigan. It was early in this morning, and I saw a little boy running after him, all the faculty children in the playing field ran after the boy, and I ran after them. This is a completely spontaneous, unstaged picture.”

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