Barefoot Quote by Jacob Bronowski

“It's for us that the University exists, for the dispossessed of the world; not for the students, not for the selfless pursuit of knowledge,…

— John Williams

“Religious creeds are a great obstacle to any full sympathy between the outlook of the scientist and the outlook which religion is so often…

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and…

— Nicholas Murray Butler

“Our purpose is to produce students who have that rare and precious combination of a superb secular education, complemented by faith in the Lord,…

— Boyd K. Packer

... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of…

— Catharine Beecher

The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of…

— Spiro T. Agnew

One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of…

— Jane Jacobs

Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often made the…

— Tony Attwood

“Students engaged in direct experience with materials, unforeseen obstacles, and serendipitous discoveries may result in understanding never anticipated by the teacher.”

— Sylvia Libow Martinez

How can they know Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone, And there alone, that have no solitude? So the crowd come they…

— William Butler Yeats

As students, it's important that irrespective of whatever you are doing, you educate yourself, as that gives you certain standing in public.

— Manushi Chhillar

Pupils may learn many things when a teacher is not in fact teaching.

— Paul Q. Hirst