But at the end of the day, you can’t major in Making Stuff, so it was Art by default.

I’m an academic. I teach at the university, and that’s where I will go back to.

When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of...

Lecture’s over.

I hope that one day when I’ll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.

Fortunately, our colleges and universities are fully cognizant of the problems I have been delineating and take concerted action to address them. Curricula are designed to give coherence to the educational experience and to challenge...

Life is still better than University. In school, your teacher is the fruit picker and you are the open fruit basket. Then you take those fruits and make cakes and pies. But life is going...

The university awarded me my degree, but can something that’s basically worthless be properly called an award?

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

I love having to attend the one class that is being taught by a professor who feels that their class is the only class being taught at the University and gives nothing but busy work.

Queen’s University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.

Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it...

If you see yourself as other people see you, it means you are lost, you don’t know yourself and you have closed down a world class university of diligence!

I am much afraid that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise...

In his early days at University, he’d been too green to realize winning debates, even private ones, would lose him friends.

For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the...

Humility: The most quietly profound professor in the university of Christian living.

When I went to university, I was already working professionally with the Ulster Actors.

Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But there is no university without humane inquiry, which means that universities and advanced capitalism are fundamentally incompatible. And the political...

I don’t understand why Universities only offer undergraduate classes during the day when their professional staff should be smart enough to know that a large percentage of their students are non-traditional.

In the university of life, failure births experience

What else can I do? Once you’ve gone this far you aren’t fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You’re overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game would be...

But we’re a university! We have to have a library!” said Ridcully. “It adds tone. What sort of people would we be if we didn’t go into the library?””Students,” said Senior Wrangler morosely.

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...