Nothing worth knowing can ever be taught in a classroom.

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.

My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn’t know what he was doing.””You mean you went to an expensive school?

I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.

It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don’t mix, and university days ought to be days of contemplation.

Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.

I’m in the Just Under A Decade club. That’s how long it took me to get a four-year degree.

If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society… It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view...

The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.

Most of us are pseudo-scholars…for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Church and State, we control the education of the Empire, we lend to the Press such distinction as...

They say education has no end. If you still disagree with this, here is a better way to take it in; “Education has an end that never comes”.

People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks.

I don’t argue with fools; I educate.

In my illustrious career as a university student, I turned in over 100 papers so that one day, in the end, I got 1 paper in return.

One day, though, I was asked if I’d like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.

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So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

I had a few good professors in my painting and drawing classes, but all my graphic design classes tried to teach us how to use Photoshop and Illistrator by showing the class demonstration video clips....

A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society…It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of...

What are the purposes of examinations anyhow? Are they to increase our educational attainment? Or are they instruments used to bring suffering and humiliation and deep hurt to a person who is trying so hard...

It’s a chance for you to show that you can be a team player,” Bill Vogel said.

My friends, life is so serious that if you are not aware of whom you are, your “youniversity” will be prestigious but unknown!

Where do you find a stomach on a Thursday afternoon in Reno? “Chinatown?” suggests someone. “Costco?” “Butcher Boys.” Tracy pulls his phone from a pocket. “Hello, I’m from the university” – the catchall preamble for...

For me, it does not ‘miss’ if (the Potteries Thinkbelt study) goes into the archive, not as an example of how railway carriages can be used for teaching, but as one of the most powerful...

By the Middle Ages… the introduction of the Trivium was well-known: S’DI, an educated black from Tombouctou, author of the well-known work entitled, ‘Tarikh es-Soudan’ cites amongst the subjects that he mastered, logic, dialection, grammar,...

It was a common complaint amongst the Arts students that their library was in dire need of refurbishment. To call the old building shabby chic was being kind. It didn’t have automated stacks or self-service...

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, “Mythology and Archetypal Experience,” confounded me. I didn’t understand why we couldn’t just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then

I tell people, “Yeah, I went to Harvard University.” What I don’t tell them is I was only there for five minutes delivering a pizza.

I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.