[On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as… — Barbara Bergmann Copy Share Image
I think failing the qualifying or the 11-plus actually hurt me more than I realised. After I'd become a professor of physics… — Jocelyn Bell Burnell Copy Share Image
In one of his puckish moods Saul talked the president of a university into letting him anonymously take an examination being administered… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
At least we both know how shitty the world is. You wearing a beard as a mask to disguise it. I wearing… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
The universities will ask for money back so they can put their name on the side of a building without fully educating… — Eddie George Copy Share Image
I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I had never met anyone of my own age that was a Tory, so going to university and seeing people who were… — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
Whatever education a university or institutes of higher education imparts, it must achieve the global level of benchmarking given the vastness and… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
When I was studying at Chicago and at Stanford University, where many many cases of two people observing the same event have… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
There are many reasons that universities in East Asia have not reached the positions that they had hoped for. After all, we… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
What we seek to advance, what we seek to develop in all of our colleges and universities, are educated men and women… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The era of appeasement must come to an end. The political and social demands that dissidents are making of the universities do… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
I have observed private and proprietary colleges, like the University of Phoenix, and the market they serve. And I found it intriguing… — Roy Romer Copy Share Image
My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863. — Carl Spitteler Copy Share Image
In Sydney, I gave what was billed as a masterclass to bright students of writing at the University of Sydney. But the… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
There are a lot of young Canadians who want to be politically active at their college or their university who can't go… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
I played volleyball for Brown University and loved playing there. I played all four years and was captain my senior year. Second… — Lauren Gibbs Copy Share Image
I've been down to the University of South Carolina, University of Maryland, Clemson, spent some time on different college campuses and I… — Jermaine O'Neal Copy Share Image
Brandeis is so fast and loose and informal, I didn't have any problem offering a history course as a biologist. The barriers… — Jeffrey C. Hall Copy Share Image
When I left university, I didn't want to jump into anything right away. Music certainly wasn't a burning ambition. — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image