Courses Quote by Barbara Mikulski

“As he responded to the essay questions, Mitchell kept bending his answers toward their practical application. He wanted to know why he was here,…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

It was at the graduate school at Columbia University that I first met Wesley C. Mitchell, with whom I was associated for many years…

— Simon Kuznets

Although he was a brilliant businessman, in my mind, Dick Spangler will best be remembered in our state for his commitment to education and…

— Richard Burr

A decade after an average athlete graduates, everyone will have forgotten when and where he played. But every time he speaks, everyone will know…

— Theodore Hesburgh

When you see that any scholar loves the world, then his scholarship is in doubt.

— Umar

The pursuit of science, the study of the great works, the value of free inquiry, in short, the very idea of living the life…

— Ronald Reagan

“He wanted a higher education!  ”

— Riley Weber

This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens…

— Neal Stephenson

“A Brown University alum, Angell’s vision for Michigan was to create a university that could provide “an uncommon education for the common man.”

— John U. Bacon

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

— Henry George

If you read the biography of any great man, you will always notice two things: His mother's contribution in his progress and his teacher's…

— Narendra Modi

They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated.…

— Jerome Isaac Friedman