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Letter "U" » universities
«Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.»
Author: Abbott Lawrence Lowell
(Lawyer, University President)
| About:
Knowledge,
University
| Keywords:
accumulates, freshman, freshmen, seniors, universities
«No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.»
«Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?»
Author: Peter Kropotkin
| Keywords:
enclose, enclosed, encloses, enclosing, globe, prisons, The Globe, universities
«I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.»
«If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow.»
Author: William Allen White
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
attack, breed, campus, campuses, college, colleges, Colleges and universities, come on, rebel, riot, rioting, riots, universities, vigor, vim, youthful
«American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.»
Author: Camille Paglia
| Keywords:
connoisseur, connoisseurs, extended, extended family, German, graduate student, graduate students, grimly, nuclear family, scholarship, technician, technicians, The Connoisseur, universities
«American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.»
«No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches; no great Universities nor public schools / no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class / no Epsom nor Ascot! Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.»
Author: Henry James
| Keywords:
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«Because we now have a research group, and we are out there working with lots of universities and are able to continue to hire great people, I'm very optimistic about our future. But, it is a future full of change and surprise.»
«America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.»
Author: Billy Graham
| Keywords:
evangelist, Evangelists, flounder, floundering, flounders, founders, founding, Founding Fathers, intend, secular, stumbling, The Founders, universities
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