Education Quote by Brad Carter

They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had…

— Paulo Coelho

“Football, fraternities, and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn’t be in the university.”

— Robert M. Hutchins

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do…

— Anonymous

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to…

— Michael N. Castle

It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a…

— Tim Berners-Lee

Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programs, or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.

— Clayton Christensen

Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.

— Clayton M. Christensen

Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without…

— Dale Archer

“The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go on to…

— Bill Bryson

...universities were not meant entirely, or even chiefly, as stepping-stones to an examination, but that there is something else which universities can teach and…

— Anonymous

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

— Chris Hedges

It was nice to finish up Stanford. I think I always felt that I would be there for four years and graduate, and definitely…

— Andrew Luck