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“There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.”

Believe Certain One Thing Students Truth Is University Professors Relative Skepticism Entering

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.”

Has Beens Made Seems Poet Filled University Careful Made It Novelists Imitation Discretion Conducting Eliot Demure

Book:Sex, Death, and Money

Source: Sex, Death, and Money

“It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.”

Has Beens Done University

Book:The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens

Source: The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens

“At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble”

Atheism University Atheist Certainty Oxford Oxford University

Author:Alister E. McGrath

“Even the best of Christians are troubled by the question, "Why does an almighty God send, or at least allow, suffering?" When you are nagged by thoughts like this, say to yourself, "I am still in elementary school. When I graduate from the university of Christian life, I will understand His ways better and doubts will cease.”

Way Doe Stills School Christian Suffering Doubt University Cease Christian Life Graduates Almighty Almighty God Elementary School

Author:Richard Wurmbrand

“Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.”

May Purpose Education Teacher Teaching Subjects Students Taught University

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.”

Feels Stills Book Jokes Assuming University Academic Threatened

Author:Jasper Fforde

“If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.”

Ifs Needs Women Written Library University

Author:Judith Martin

“If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.”

Ifs Stills Book Use Reading Next Rooms Library University Decent Smoking Professors More Money Founding Dormitory Reading Room

Author:Stephen Leacock

“The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.”

Mind Made Values Culture University Assertion

Book:The University and the Public Interest

Source: The University and the Public Interest

“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”

People Ideas University Mediums Coercion

Author:A. Bartlett Giamatti

“I tell people, 'I have a Ph.D. from Google University.”

People University Google

Author:Kris Carr

“The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a system of heavy drinking and could be always relied upon to make a break of at least twenty-five even with a bad cue.”

Father Results Break Five Son Twenties Foundation Drinking University Heavy Certainty Twenty Five Heavy Drinking

Author:Flann O'Brien

“[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."”

Mother Education Steps University Hearted Milton Step Mother

Author:Augustine Birrell

“I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.”

Humans Care Given Draws Patient University Observation Hospitals Patient Care

Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

“Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.”

Want Should Firsts Able Opportunity Ability Pay Struggle Students Huge Should Have University Debt Backgrounds Frightened Family Background Further Education

Author:Charles Kennedy

“The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers for Irish. It should be to produce good lawyers for Americans, and not to place First Amendment barriers against anyone.”

Should Firsts Purpose Black Produce University Jew Lawyer Barriers Amendments Polish First Amendment Good Lawyer

Author:William O. Douglas

“As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.”

Should Said Ideas America Courses Should Have University Oscars Bad Ideas Wilde

Author:Frederic Raphael

“Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.”

Writing Happens Creative Program University Department Poetry Is Creative Writing

Author:Mark Strand

“After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.”

Years Jobs University Editors Editing

Author:Lynne Truss

“My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am.”

World Kind Persons Shows Challenges University My Favorite Favorites Things Quiz Quiz Show Sad Person

Author:Lynne Truss

“I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.”

World Facts University

Author:Jay McInerney

“Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.”

Years Half University Professors Articles Fewer Publish University Professors

Author:Derek Bok

“Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to write well enough to satisfy their employers... reason clearly or perform competently in analyzing complex, non-technical problems.”

Should Writing Wells Reason Enough Problem Able Students College Benefits Complexes University Accomplish Graduates Employers Analyzing Colleges And Universities

Book:Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More

Source: Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More

“Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.”

Doe Facts Support Failing Teaching College Majors Research Evidence Critics University Tendencies Neglect Professors Attributes Thesis Undergraduate

Author:Derek Bok

“Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.”

Way Heart Jobs Night Students My Heart University Dear My Way Host Karaoke Close To My Heart

Author:Nathan Fillion

“In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.”

Education Intellectual University Circles Guarantees Satisfying Popularity Opinionated

Author:A. N. Wilson

“I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I'm not as articulate as Martin Amis.”

Stills Voice Natural Horror University

Author:James Herbert

“I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.”

Trying Play School Parent Class Teacher Failing High School University Boring Attending School Teachers Alberta High School Teachers Canadian History

Author:Nathan Fillion

“For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.”

Years Firsts Sports University Coaches Wounds Texas Assistants University Of Texas Assistant Coaches

Author:Darrell Royal

“I've been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.”

Want Study Students Goes On University Accepted Chinese Archaeology Cambridge Cambridge University

Author:Lou Gerstner

“I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.”

Class University Educational Educational System Indictment

Author:Kevin Kline

“No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing knowledge for which universities were originally created!”

Giving Seems Earth Knowledge Missing Strange Masters Essentials Degrees University

Author:Robert Muller

“Most people are just trying to get through the day. Be committed to learn to get from the day. Don't just get through it; get from it. Learn from it. Let the day teach you. Join the university of life. What a difference that will make in your future. Commit yourself to learning. Commit yourself to absorbing. Be like a sponge. Get it. Don't miss it.”

People Trying Differences Teach Learning Missing University Committed Commit Our Future Your Future Absorbing Sponges

Author:Jim Rohn

“I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . .”

Years Humanity New York Years Ago University Conferences Institute Heterosexuality Heterosexuality Is

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“A great deal of the pupils time was spent going through, once again, the History of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the Soviet Union. He had learnt it at elementary school; at secondary school; at his sports club; at the Komsomol; at the university; at a folk dancing course; at the chess-club.”

School Funny Courses Sports Deals Party Humorous Dancing Unions University Folks Clubs Chess Russia Communist Soviet Soviet Union Pupils Elementary School Bolsheviks Secondary School

Author:George Mikes

“A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.”

Men School Young Science Education Elements University Ignorant Young Man Branches Public School Useful Knowledge

Book:Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage

Source: Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage

“I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the water-wheels of Newton. Black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation; cruel works Of many wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden, which Wheel within wheel in freedom revolve, in harmony & peace.”

Eye School Moving Science Turns Nations Black Water Views Education Europe Harmony University Heavy Rage Wheels Folds Compulsion Newton Eden Cogs Wreaths

Book:Blake: The Complete Poems

Source: Blake: The Complete Poems

“For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by the effect it exerts on the people. And this alone gives the standard for the speaker's genius.”

People Giving Effects Media Genius Speech Standards University Impression Propaganda Professors Speakers Statesmen University Professors

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.”

Should Reality Risk Havens Please Safe Aim University Examination Ruthless Safe Haven Displeasure

Author:Kingman Brewster, Jr.

“I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.”

Littles Art States College University Missouri Truman Liberal Arts Liberal Arts College

Author:Jenna Fischer

“The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.”

Wells States Light Law Conditions Please University Damn Controlled Nutrition Organisms Temperature Harvard Humidity

Author:Larry Wall

“What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.”

Has Beens Poor Education University Poor Education

Author:Horatio Bottomley

“Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and try for the sake of trying. So there is a possibility of what I would call playing. It's perhaps the only place within society where play is possible to such an extent.”

Trying May Play Waiting Results Education Study Possibility University Sake Efficient

Author:Jacques Derrida

“Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and some other men to be instruments of the scientific management of a mass population. Schools are intended to produce through the application of formulae, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and controlled.”

Men Humans School Human Beings Education Teacher Produce College Behavior Mass Management Instruments University Population Controlled Chicago Application Columbia Harper Sears

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.”

World Real Would Be Poetry Poet University Workshops

Author:James Broughton

“Were I not a king, I would be a university man.”

Men Would Be Kings University

Author:King James I

“My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.”

People Mother Father Wise Military University Educated Worldly Very Wise Wise People

Author:Chuck D

“I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes.”

Want Feels Sometimes Fun Students Married Ordinary University Having Fun Getting Married

Author:Prince William

“My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.”

Technology Study Events Series Intention University Physics Unexpected Institute Massachusetts

Author:Sidney Altman

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