Courses Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even within traditional universities there has always been debate about whether it wouldn't be better to focus on only one course at a time.

— Philip Greenspun

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

— Anonymous

I was horrified to visit our universities and find that at the Punjab Agriculture University or at the Animal and Husbandry University, we don't…

— Amarinder Singh

Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do give us useful things as…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.

— Jane Jacobs

Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition…

— Evgeny Morozov

Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.

— Dean Koontz

As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

— Derek Bok

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or the state, or letters; and the reason why this or that man is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson