Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Look to the past to help create the future. Look to science and to poetry. Combine innovation and interpretation. We need the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made.… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share Image
It's not that some players shouldn't be in school; it's just that universities should help them more - instead of just finding… — Josh Rosen Copy Share Image
Once universities, rather than religious orders, were established as the key repositories of learning, women would find it ever harder to prove… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Young adults enrolled in universities and colleges or other postsecondary training should avail themselves of the opportunity to take institute of religion… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I go to universities to talk to the students and teach them how to watch movies. Movies have so many elements -… — Andrew Lau Copy Share Image
In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and… — B. Carroll Reece Copy Share Image
There is no greater way to ensure that universities remain a hotbed of leftist thought than to guarantee that professors knight their… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
The U.S. is the biggest investor in research and development in the world. It has the best universities. Keeping them supplied with… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
Our universities are among the best you'll find anywhere in the world. The quality and reputation we offer is one of the… — Gavin Williamson Copy Share Image
I think that the balance needs to be restored, and I would note that in the camp in which I am in,… — Rick Boucher Copy Share Image
Like Israel, the U.K. is a democracy, and like Israel, we would never want to muzzle political voices, whatever their opinions -… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say,… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
For most students at universities around the country, studying entrepreneurship is a pleasant intellectual diversion, not a professional choice, path, or commitment. — Andrew Yang Copy Share Image
“Our universities teach non-white, non-Christian, and female students to find offense everywhere. American students get degrees in Finding Offense.” — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
I see no reason why there still are large lectures in universities throughout the world. When people gather, they should be interactive,… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
Our higher education system is controlled by what amounts to a cartel of existing colleges and universities, which use their power over… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
It is of course true that many of our universities are large and complex organisations, requiring highly skilled individuals to run them… — Jo Johnson Copy Share Image
When you take the best of universities in the world, all of them have research and education contiguous; the person who teaches… — Shiv Nadar Copy Share Image
For online universities, like Liverpool and the University of Phoenix, if prices drop by 60%, they still make money. But for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think Caltech fills a unique role, and it's not a cheap one. Their small size allows them to do interdisciplinary work… — Gordon Moore Copy Share Image
I was horrified to visit our universities and find that at the Punjab Agriculture University or at the Animal and Husbandry University,… — Amarinder Singh Copy Share Image
Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute. — James E. Rogers Copy Share Image
Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“For a world full of universities, brilliant people and clever corporations it sure is a pit of hell and sorrow for billions.… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Are we a nation that educates the world's best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Be he poor, be he friendless,here he may acquire distinction, the reward of merit alone. Knowledge to him will here unfold her… — Charles Nicholson Copy Share Image
No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
Public universities play a major role in their local communities, serving a variety of needs in addition to their traditional academic roles. — Mike Parson Copy Share Image
I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're… — Johnny Galecki Copy Share Image
