Nothing worth knowing can ever be taught in a classroom.

I’ve learned far too much to know everything.

..it lay in the true function of the university to promote that interplay of view, that discussion and dispute, that cumulative narrowing down of possibilities that led to the formation of accurate opinion. The students...

College towns [are] all the same in that way; same burger, different wrapper.

There are some things you can’t learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life… the only college where everyone is a permanent student.

If everyone could learn how to read books properly and how to use them as effective tools for daily living, the facilities of colleges could easily go out of existence without any loss to society.’...

The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.

What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role of academia has been to service the status quo, not challenge it in...

If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk – it...

My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the ’50s.

Were I not a king, I would be a university man.

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn’t have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn’t possibly have...

I wouldn’t advise making a four-year commitment to eventually land an $8.00/hour job. Skip college. Read Wikipedia for free instead.

Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

In a proper Islamic University, fard ‘ain knowledge which represents the permanent intellectual and spiritual needs of the human soul–should form the core curriculum, and should be made obligatory to all students. Fard kifayah knowledge–reflecting...

Is that what those were?” Gerry blithely replied.

I want to leave a legacy. I’ll leave him in the trunk, tied up, at a parking garage on the campus of the university where he graduated.

Learning and reading will enrich your life with wisdom for living.

When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial social role. It was to foster and protect the kind of values for...

To understand our faith — to theologize in the Catholic tradition — we need philosophy. We must use the philosophical language of God, person, creation, relationship, identity, natural law, virtues, conscience, moral norms if we...

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.

All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.

And to officially declare you have talent ” Suzy returned.

The grass is full of ghosts tonight.’ ‘The whole campus is alive with them.’ They paused by Little and watched the moon rise, to make silver of the slate roof of Dodd and blue the...

Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined...

An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a fourth-year architecture student sitting at his desk at a window, drawing and nursing...

Jefferson also founded the first intentionally secularized university in America. His vision for the University of Virginia was for education finally free from traditional Christian dogma. He had a disdain for the influence that institutional...

When I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania I had a baby in one arm, a diploma in the other and I didn’t know where I was going in life.

The very least thing one should learn at the university is how to reach new knowledge.

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

What you learn is your greatest treasure.

The most important skill for a new recruit from university will be the ability to learn.

Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by zealous parents, schools, and institutional authorities what constitutes failure and...

So I enrolled at the University of North Florida, which, as you can imagine, is in north Florida. That’s about all I have to say about the school itself, as it’s so bland that if...

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court.

And little girls went to charm schools. Now you’ve all got degrees from the University of Sarcasm.

Is there anyone that thinks this girl is doing something wrong?” Not one person raised their hand.

Education is political.

Les vraies universités ne sont pas celles que nous avons construites. C’est facile à dire une fois qu’on le sait. Les vraies universités subvertissent, elles corrompent, ce sont des institutions dangereuses et, qui plus est,...

I’m a man of leisure. That’s because I have an English degree and can’t get a job.

MENTOR signifies:M = MotivatorE = EmpowersN = NurtureT = Teacher O = Originator R = Role model

He has little hope that university, when he gets there next year, will be any different. Like right now, all these pupils taking notes as if their life depended on it. All for what? he...

One cannot get rid of a good education, nor, unfortunately, of a bad one, which often is such because one has not wanted to defray the expenses of a good one.

…I’m worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend of a friend, and just listening to her talk is scary....

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn’t exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University.