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Letter "U" » university
«A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.»
Author: John Ciardi
| About:
University
| Keywords:
Colleges and universities, college student, faculty, students, The Faculty, university
«Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles»
Author: Paul Fussell
| About:
America and Americans,
Anxiety
| Keywords:
advertise, affiliation, affiliations, anxiety, automobiles, college, Colleges and universities, prompt, prompting, prompts, rear, rear window, status, university
«A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.»
Author: Richard Hofstadter
| About:
University
| Keywords:
Free Inquiry, inquiry, sacrificed, university
«A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one»
Author: Robert Maynard Hutchins
(Educator)
| About:
Education,
Learning
| Keywords:
letters, student, twelve, university
«And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
| Keywords:
actual, age-old, Age of Reason, exactly, hoping, inns, method, mostly, one to, putting, Taverns, The Age, the University, university, vicinity, worked
«As a matter of fact student riots of one sort or another, protests against the order that is, kicks against college and university management indicate a healthy growth and a normal functioning of the academic mind.»
Author: William Allen White
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
academic, Academics, as a matter of fact, Colleges and universities, college student, functioning, indicate, kicks, management, protests, rioting, riots, student, The Order, university
«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.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
after all, books, book of knowledge, collection, collections, days, In books, manner, professors, These Days, The Professor, the true, university
«A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Art,
Education
| Keywords:
digesting, digests, folly, hence, pedantry, philosophy, science, superstition, university
«A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
freight, freighted, freight car, railroad, railroads, railroad car, steal, university
«A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution (the University of Virginia)»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
institution, professorship, theologies, theology, the University, university, Virginia
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