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university
«Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it»
Author: Allan Bloom
| About:
Politics,
Students
| Keywords:
arrive, arrive at, critical, cynical, heritage, inspired, lacking, students, the University, university, wherewithal
«In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools»
Author: Doris Lessing
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
University
| Keywords:
Learning to, The Law, the University, tolerate, university
«No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.»
Author: Lawrence Clark Powell
(Critic, Librarian, Writer)
| About:
Libraries,
University
| Keywords:
correspondingly, risen, university
«Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist»
Author: Robert Maynard Hutchins
(Educator)
| About:
Freedom,
University
| Keywords:
discussion, inquiry, university
«I, on the other hand, am a fully-rounded human being, with a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me»
Author: Rowan Atkinson
(Actor)
| Keywords:
diploma, diplomas, kicked, knocks, on the other hand, rounded, School of, shit, The school, the University, university
«She thought of a sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.»
Author: Thomas Pynchon
| About:
Irony
| Keywords:
Cornell, Cornell University, slope, slopes, sunrise, The Library, university, West
«So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the 15th century.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
century, concerned, imparting, imparts, justification, popularization, printing, university
«If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter»
Author: Margaret Mead
| Keywords:
cloister, cloistered, cloisters, grasp, laboratories, laboratory, subject matter, the University, twelve, university, walls
«I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.»