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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school. — Walter Annenberg
In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into… — B. Carroll Reece
There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop… — Thomas Sowell
There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in… — Marilyn Ferguson
We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by… — Daphne Koller
To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is… — Elaine Scarry
Prisons are the universities of the opposition. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country [Afghanistan] is dominated by drug economy and a mafia;… — Ashraf Ghani
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities. — Milton Friedman
In the search for character and commitment, we must rid ourselves of our inherited, even cherished biases and prejudices. Character, ability and intelligence are not… — J. Irwin Miller
For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities. — Rodney Stark
Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send… — Thomas Sydenham
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This… — W. Somerset Maugham
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of… — Camille Paglia
If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a… — Bobby Knight
There's enough food in this world. There's enough housing in this world. There's enough shelter in this world. There's enough clothing in this world. There's… — Rebecca Solnit
Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire. — Morris Kline
...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 ought… — Max Muller
My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities — Dennis Prager
The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings — John Stuart Mill
Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout. — Tom Hayden
I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries must be formed,… — Klemens von Metternich
Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of… — Harold Bloom

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