University Quotes - Page 29

• 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.

  George Will

  Thinking, Offering, Choices

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• 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.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Cute, Children, Skills

  "I (Robot) Thee Wed". www.slate.com. May 04, 2012.

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• 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.

  E. O. Wilson

  Views, Years, Alabama

  "Transcript of the complete E.O. Wilson interview". blog.cleveland.com. March 01, 2009.

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• My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Two, Democracy, Together

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• It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.

  Robert Winston

  Real, Animal, Achievement

  "The shame of our silence" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2006.

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• Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Scholar, South, Has Beens

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.3, Book Tree

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• I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Dream, College

  William Butler Yeats (1954). “The Letters of W.B. Yeats”

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• I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Country, Teaching, People

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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• It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Years, Cinema, World

  Interview with Preetika Rana, blogs.wsj.com. April 1, 2013.

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• I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

  Helen McCrory

  Further Education, Radio

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Technology, Government, Degrees

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• I first went to Barcelona in 1975 after university, and I stayed for three years. I learnt Catalan because that's what everyone speaks in the mountains. They speak English to foreigners, but what people say to each other is much more important than what they say to you.

  Colm Toibin

  Years, Speak English, People

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• When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.

  Larry Wall

  Years, California, Principles

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• Today, the entire country is an immense University.

  Fidel Castro

  Country, Today, Immense

  Fidel Castro's resignation letter, www.cnn.com. February 20, 2008.

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• Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, American Universities, Department

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was shelving books at a branch of the Chicago Public Library.) Libraries are a pillar of any society. I believe our lack of attention to funding and caring for them properly in the United States has a direct bearing on problems of literacy, productivity, and our inability to compete in today's world. Libraries are everyman's free university.

  John Jakes

  Jobs, Believe, Book

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• Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done.

  Thomas Friedman

  School, World, Done

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• Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Prison, Crime, States

  Peter Kropotkin (2014). “Memoirs of a Revolutionist”, p.468, Courier Corporation

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• Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I ran up the hill and looked across the world: Kansas wheat fields and the Kaw River, and I wanted to go some place, too. I got a whipping for it.

  Langston Hughes

  Home, Wheat Fields, Rivers

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• But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk together. In too many of our cities today, the peace is not secure because freedom is incomplete." (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, June, Cities

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.464, Best Books on

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• And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation – the right to breathe air as nature provided it -- the right of future generations to a healthy existence?" (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, June, Rights

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.464, Best Books on

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• She looked at me. "What? Is there something wrong with my idea?" "It's not very heroic," I said dismissively. "I was expecting something with a little more flair." "Well, I left my armor and warhorse at home," she said. "You're just upset because your big University brain couldn't think of a way, and my plan is brilliant.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Home, Thinking, Ideas

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• I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Song, Kings, Princess

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.

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• Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.

  Molly Ivins

  Women, Laughing, Groups

  Molly Ivins (1991). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, Random House Incorporated

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• Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgment of the union of theory and practice, where we work together as teachers and students to overcome the estrangement and alienation that have become so much the norm in the contemporary university.

  Bell Hooks

  Teacher, Struggle, Practice

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.63, Routledge

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