Top 1127 Colleges And Universities Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

In the 1970s colleges were under the reign of a very odd form of literary theory called deconstruction or post-structuralism.

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

We believe that colleges have a fundamental responsibility, if you're located in an urban area, to turn outward and address the needs of the communities you serve.

Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

It's just blind luck when a woman is born into a wealthy family and attends the best colleges and joins top sororities.

I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to.

It's absurd how aspirants to designer-label colleges become obsessed with perfection so they can get into one. I'm not convinced it's worth prostituting yourself for that.

Once citadels of free expression and occasional revolutionary ideas, today many American colleges have endorsed political correctness.

We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.

I auditioned at four different colleges. When I got into the University of Michigan, my parents said, 'Okay, maybe you do have talent.'

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

We are awash in content that needs to be taught, yet the vast majority of colleges give a large portion of their faculties' salaries to fund research.

I believe that the fragile-flower, idea-intolerant society of victimhood that is being cultivated in many colleges today is really bad.

The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.

The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.

It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks.

We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

She [Theresa May] has done more to bring immigration down and abolish things like bogus colleges.

My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities

Universities were not meant entirely, or even chiefly, as stepping-stones to an examination, but that there is something else which universities can teach and ought to teach-nay, which I feel quite sure they were originally meant to teach-something that may not have a marketable value before a Board of Examiners, but which has a permanent value for the whole of our life, and that is a real interest in our work, and, more than that, a love of our work, and, more than that, a true joy and happiness in our work.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

Public universities are the lifeblood of modern democracies.

For laid-off workers, community colleges offer job-certification programs that teach new skills and professions.

People need to realize that community colleges really give you a good education. And they do - that's just a simple fact of it.

A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.

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

I want somehow, some way, for us to be able to make our community and technical colleges free.

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

One doesn't have to sit through exams and go to universities to play rock n' roll.

We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors.

Creative universities are bedrock of every developed nation's S&T strategy.

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

There are serious and legitimate concerns about academic espionage at our universities.

The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.

Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.

There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.

Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.

I was trying to get out of the night clubs and was thinking maybe I'll go to the colleges now; that's where you can speak your mind.

Hindutva is an idea where you learn things that schools and colleges do not teach you - to say we are all one because DNA says there is no such thing as Aryan or Dravidian.

In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.

London's top colleges attract the best young talent from around the world; they're truly a national asset.

Because of the flexibility that community colleges afford, many students do not have to choose between an education and fulfilling other responsibilities - they can do both.

Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education.

By allowing many adult learners to retrain and upskill throughout their careers, colleges provide expertise for key sectors.

I think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life.

People look at me like I'm crazy when I say that our greatest partnership here at Ohio State should be with the community colleges.

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

I believe colleges should not be allowed to benefit from unlimited federal largesse while taking advantage of students.

Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.

Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.

Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.