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Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the… — Bell Hooks
Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast. — Peter Drucker
Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the powers of consumerism,… — Wes Jackson
I think we're vastly over-invested in universities. Universities should be relatively small and provide excellent education and research in a number of specialized areas. I… — Stephen Harper
With leading research universities, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and private companies like Blue Sun working on developing alternative fuels, Colorado is poised to become… — Ken Salazar
France has a very important relationship with Germany. But that does not mean that we agree about everything or that two of our universities or… — Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to maintain a structure… — Chris Hedges
If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how… — Johnny Ball
We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors. — John Archibald Wheeler
I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into… — Steven Weinberg
Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there. — Dean Koontz
After the rigged Iranian presidential elections in 2009, the Islamic regime attacked the 'humanities' as the main source of protests, the most effective tool used… — Azar Nafisi
In schools, including universities, most resources are spent to purchase the time and motivation of a limited number of people to take up predetermined problems… — Ivan Illich
Our universities today are better equipped than ever, and the wars keep getting worse. — Jacque Fresco
Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often made the comment… — Tony Attwood
S. J. Keyser is a shrewd and insightful observer of academe. His experiences in three universities, Brandeis, UMass, and MIT, enrich his perspectives about the… — Paul E. Gray
E-learning as we know it has been around for ten years or so. During that time, it has emerged from being a radical idea---the effectiveness… — Stephen Downes
Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country. — Ric Keller
We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn. — Stanley Fish
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism. — Robert M. Hutchins
If you truly don't have competition, then zoom out until you can define some. Competition can be as simple as the reliance on the status… — Guy Kawasaki
Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate from… — Bill Gates
I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years. — John Pople
Among the elementary measures the American government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following: the schools, colleges, and universities will be coordinated… — William Z. Foster
America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps… — Norm Coleman

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