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...