Education Quote by Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Indeed, the study of universities and the great men and women who have attended them leads me to think that the best of these…

— Paul Johnson

I think universities are trying to figure out how we could use what we know about learning to change our education system, but it…

— Alison Gopnik

I think the universities as we know them will be dead in a future years. I'd like to see them replaced by something better,…

— David Gelernter

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

— A. N. Wilson

I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm…

— Jimmy Nail

Out of the suffering of the 1930s, Britain built a civilising society, based in large part on the important lesson that unemployment is rarely…

— John McDonnell

Reading literature remains a civilising activity, no matter that it's literature in which people do and say abominable things and the author curses like…

— Howard Jacobson

I think the universities have co-opted the intellectual, by and large. But there is an emerging intellectual set coming out of Washington think tanks…

— Richard Rodriguez

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many…

— Flannery O'Connor

Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

— Karin Slaughter

As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

— Derek Bok

I was horrified to visit our universities and find that at the Punjab Agriculture University or at the Animal and Husbandry University, we don't…

— Amarinder Singh