University Quotes - Page 23

• It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

  Charles Babbage

  Degrees, Certain, Ought

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.

  Spencer Bachus

  Numbers, Gambling, People

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• The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

  J. G. Ballard

  Retirement, Mean, Significant Change

  "Age of unreason". Interview With Jeannette Baxter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2004.

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• I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.

  Iain Banks

  Book, Years, Drawing

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• I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

  John Banville

  Self, Arrogant, Impatient

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• When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

  Angela Bassett

  Mother, School, College

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

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• Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

  Samuel Beckett

  Funny, Hilarious, Ireland And The Irish

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• At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Book, Reading, Oxford

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

  Joe Biden

  Political, Delaware, Majors

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• 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.

  Allan Bloom

  Learning, Cynical, Political

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Derek Bok

  Government, Priorities, Quality

  Derek Curtis Bok (1990). “Universities and the Future of America”, p.41

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• I don't believe in colleges and universities.

  Ray Bradbury

  Believe, College, Self Education

  "A Literary Legend Fights for a Local Library" by Jennifer Steinhauer, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2009.

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• I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University.

  Eli Broad

  School, America, Michigan

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• Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.

  Louise Brown

  Girl, Thinking, Boys

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• Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

  Anthony Burgess

  Book, Reading, Average

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• Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Training, World

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

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• Quite a few people have commented during the campaign that more help is required for small businesses. SMEs need support and encouragement in their early stages, and in Cambridge the links to the University and the huge pool of expertise here helps that.

  Anne Campbell

  Encouragement, People, Support

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• I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.

  Tony Campolo

  University Professors, Ministers, Professors

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• I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

  Tony Campolo

  Commitment, Cities, Special

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• If four years of university can increase your effectiveness of what you can do for others in the name of Christ, it is the best investment that you can make. But if the education is simply to get a job to make a lot of money, you have to raise the question of why you're doing it.

  Tony Campolo

  Jobs, Years, Names

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• After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

  Albert Camus

  Teacher, Retirement, Book

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• What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Motivational, Education

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• During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.

  Michael N. Castle

  School, College, African American

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• The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

  Fidel Castro

  College, Belief, Revolutionary

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

  Carol P. Christ

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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