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- There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher…
- Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of…
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- [Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating… — William Lawrence Bragg
- This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have… — Lord Byron
- Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French. — Aravind Adiga
- I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every… — Roald Hoffmann
- A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German… — Clark Kerr
- Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a… — Frances O'Grady
- Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of… — Max Beerbohm
- Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers
- I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a… — John Fowles
- There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each… — Derek Bok
- Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the… — Derek Bok
- If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction. — Louis Begley