Average Quote by J. Frank Dobie

“The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one gaveyard to another.”

— J. Frank Dobie

Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis.

— Stephen Cole Kleene

Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library.

— Pete Seeger

It is fitting that the Government of the United States should assume the obligation of the establishment and maintenance of a first-class university for…

— William Howard Taft

I didn't even complete my University Education

— Bill Gates

The years I would have spent at University, I spent building Student Magazine and Virgin Records. For me that was far more fun and…

— Richard Branson

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a…

— Trevor Nunn

I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there…

— Charles Kennedy

Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

— Confucius

My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either ignored or…

— Herbert Schiller

The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“One of the main purposes of university education is to escape from the Zeitgeist, from the mean, narrow, provincial spirit which is constantly assuring…

— Martin Wight