College Quote by John Ciardi Download Open image “A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.” — John Ciardi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare College Interest University
The essence of a university is free and open inquiry, and when it loses that it is no longer a university. — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student's life, and an institution should do what it… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
The professors - working steadily and systematically - have destroyed the university as a center of learning and have desolated higher education, which no… — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
An institution of higher education is a partnership among students and alumni, faculty and administrators, donors and trustees, neighborhoods and more, to build a… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
“Colleges are supposed to be the calm environment in which educated men and women determine what’s true and what’s false, and where they learn… — Thomas M. Nichols Copy Share Image
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
But when the pen is in his hand he has to write by itch and twitch, though certainly his itch and twitch are intimately… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what's possible Could reason half the jungle out of… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“There was a young lady from Gloucester Who complained that her parents both bossed her, So she ran off to Maine. Did her parents… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
One night I dreamed I was locked in my Father's watch With Ptolemy and twenty-one ruby stars Mounted on spheres and the Primum Mobile… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
It was only when I started making short films in college and I was looking for girls to play the me-ish parts that I… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I do not believe in public shaming. I do believe that young adults go to college to learn things, and that this process will… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
Some people, you know, should just go to college and do what they do and have a great job and not worry about trying… — John Legend Copy Share Image
I was totally sober in college and really, really focused. I just took the time when other people might be partying and just made… — K. Flay Copy Share Image
In college we didn't pass block the way they do in the pros - they played the I-formation at Wisconsin. — Mike Webster Copy Share Image
Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
