Top 1127 Colleges And Universities Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

When I go to colleges for talks, I encourage the students to drop out.

Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.

The ancient universities was not as based on how many credit hours you're taking and whether you've completed your credit hours. The ancient universities were much more interested in customized, personalized learning... Where you have a mentor and where you're learning at your own pace.

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

Community colleges are the way of the future.

The duty of universities is toward their nation, for which they must prepare leaders in all fields and these must be necessarily ethnically native. For it is intolerable that a nation educate for itself alien leaders in its universities.

Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.

I was invited to give the Freshmen Convocation at Florida Gulf Coast University on October 24, 2004. My book The Open Space of Democracy had been selected as one of the "common readers" for the university's 1,050 entering freshmen. On October 6, William Merwin, the president of Florida Gulf Coast, made the decision to "postpone" the convocation. He cited negative statements I had made in print about President Bush. If our colleges and universities are no longer the champions and protectors of free speech, then no voice in this country is safe.

Colleges [have] forfeited the responsibilities of in loco parentis and have gone into the pimping and brothel business.

My message is get into what you love and really want to do and can do. And there are these tests you can take for that. All the colleges have them.

There is a stigma attached to community colleges, and we do need to change the narrative.

I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.

Community colleges are certainly one of America's best-kept secrets.

I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

I applied to zero colleges.

For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.

Prisons are the universities of the opposition.

It outlines the fact that we are twins, we grew up together, but then we went to different colleges and went in separate directions.

The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students coming into the U.K. There's a job here not just for the government, I think there's a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open.

So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.

For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.

I think the universities have co-opted the intellectual, by and large. But there is an emerging intellectual set coming out of Washington think tanks now. There are people who are leaving the universities and working for the government or in think tanks, simply looking for freedom.

I think the anger that is being directed to universities and so-called elites at universities is actually an anger that's displaced from politicians (who promise to make things better and never do), from employers, it's an anger at the economic system that has put so many of these people out of the kind of work that once was so satisfying to them.

You have to be reminded of a basic fact: intelligence belongs to the watching consciousness; memory belongs to the mind. Memory is one thing - memory is not intelligence. But the whole of humanity has been deceived for centuries and told indirectly that the memory is intelligence. Your schools, your colleges, your universities are not trying to find your intelligence; they are trying to find out who is capable of memorizing more. And now we know perfectly well that memory is a mechanical thing. A computer can have memory, but a computer cannot have intelligence.

We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.

Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of Big Science, Garber argues that twenty-first-century universities must rigorously devote their attention to Big Art. Provocative, witty, and layered, Patronizing the Arts cogently demonstrates the advantages for both art and the university in this new and radical alliance.

Many university presidents assume the language and behavior of CEOs and in doing so they are completely reneging on the public mission of the universities. The state is radically defunding public universities and university presidents, for the most part, rather than defending higher education as a public good, are trying to privatize their institutions in order to remove them from the political control of state governments. This is not a worthy or productive strategy.

Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks.

I recommend that you change colleges.

Colleges take kids' money. It's that simple.

I've said it before, but community colleges are the best-kept secret in the nation.

I kept going to different colleges, but dropped out.

Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.

The passage of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 was a substantial victory for community colleges.

Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education.

One of the reasons that our colleges have gotten so expensive is because of tenure.

I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges.

I was a maverick. I went to five different colleges looking for I don't know quite what.

Elite colleges like Stanford are extremely inaccessible. They're failing in their mission to provide access.

I feel it has become increasingly competitive. There are some insane cut-offs to get into a lot of colleges.

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

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.

Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals; yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for the unfolding of creative talents. In neither art, music, literature, technology and social theory, nor planning have the Universities figured as originators or as seedbeds of new talents and energies.

The United States has got to join the rest of the industrialized world in making sure that working families of the middle class have benefits that they absolutely need. We are the only major country on Earth that does not guarantee health care to all people as a right. We are the only major country on Earth that does not provide paid family and medical leave. There are many countries around the world which make sure that public colleges and universities are tuition-free. In our country, it's becoming increasingly difficult to afford to go to college.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.

Universities are seminaries to produce Leftists

The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.

A collection of books is the best of all universities.

The last thing the NFL wants to do is make problems for the colleges.

Commencement addresses are usually garbage. They're for colleges seeking publicity.

The problem is the for-profit colleges. These guys are absolute criminals.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

S. J. Keyser is a shrewd and insightful observer of academe. His experiences in three universities, Brandeis, UMass, and MIT, enrich his perspectives about the way universities work, and his exploration of the culture of MIT is brilliant.

There are many reasons that universities in East Asia have not reached the positions that they had hoped for. After all, we must remember that modern East Asia did not begin with Confucius. In fact the experience of modern education in East Asia is relatively short and granted that time scale, many universities are doing fine.

Universities are basically socialist institutions.

Junior colleges are high schools with ashtrays.

All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin.