Apprentice Quote by Thomas Sydenham

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

— Samuel Butler

And certainly having gone to Oxford, and seen some of the other students there, I wouldn't say the ones at my school were less…

— Liz Truss

Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever.

— Arundhati Roy

Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell,…

— Francois Rabelais

There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training, if you…

— William Gerhardie

I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.

— Emilia Fox

University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced…

— C. JoyBell C

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

— Orson Welles

Many of the greatest creations of man have been inspired by the desire to make money...If Oxford undergraduates were paid for their work, I…

— David Ogilvy

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

— William Congreve

Oxford is a very special place. You really sensed the value of a good education there.

— Munira Mirza

Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes; it does…

— John Stuart Mill