University Quotes - Page 2

• Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Education, College, Pebbles

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.676, Library of Alexandria

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• Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.

  Derek Bok

  Running, School, Institutions

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• The best university is the university of life.

  Henrique Capriles Radonski

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• No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Inspirational, Graduation, Education

  1967 In Partisan Review, Summer issue.

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• Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Graduates, Life Is, Distinction

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Years, Study

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• In the world of entrepreneurs, you don't need a college education. You need a proper education.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Graduation, Education, Learning

  Twitter post from Apr 14, 2017

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• Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.

  Allan Savory

  Food, Army, Agriculture

  "Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision Making". Book by Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield, 1999.

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• If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.

  Paul Keating

  University Degrees, Class, Greed

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• No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Greatness, Civilization, Library

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.

  Milton Friedman

  America, World, Economic

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

  Peter Drucker

  Distance, Classroom, Campus

  "I got my degree through E-mail" by Lisa Gubernick, Ebeling, www.forbes.com. June 16, 1997.

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• A collection of books is the best of all universities.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Collections

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• The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them free, with some of the best professors in their respective fields.

  Don Tapscott

  Fields, Losing, Reason

  "Discovery Learning Is the New Higher Learning" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2012.

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• A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

  Shelby Foote

  Educational, Book, Reading

  North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 51-54, 1993.

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• Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.

  Jane Jacobs

  American Universities, Primaries

  Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.44, Vintage

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• If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber

  Rowan Pelling

  Years, Taught, Primitive

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• Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

  Clive James

  Graduation, Technology, College

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• A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Character, Criticism, Being Free

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• The true university of these days is a collection of books.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Library, These Days

  On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Man of Letters" (1841)

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• 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.

  H. G. Wells

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Herbert George Wells, Alan James Mayne, H.G. Wells Society (1994). “World brain”

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

  Edward Albee

  Inspirational, Education, Half

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

  John Stuart Mill

  Agreement

  John Stuart Mill (1867). “Inaugural Addresse, Delivered to the University of St. Andrews: Feb. 1st 1867”, p.4

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• 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.

  Stephen Leacock

  Reading, Book, Smoking

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• Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop the skills and discipline required to produce a coherent analysis, based on logic and evidence. The implications of having so many people so incapable of confronting opposing arguments with anything besides ad hominem responses reach far.

  Thomas Sowell

  Educational, School, Skills

  "Cheap-Shot Journalism" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 14, 2006.

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