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"To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises."

Arendt, Hannah on colleges and universities    Share


"Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!"

Arnold, Matthew on colleges and universities    Share

"I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable."

Beerbohm, Sir Max on colleges and universities    Share

"Remote and ineffectual don."

Belloc, Hilaire on colleges and universities    Share

"The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself."

Bloom, Allan on colleges and universities
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"What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life."

Bottomley, Horatio on colleges and universities    Share

"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students."

Ciardi, John on colleges and universities    Share

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

Congreve, William on colleges and universities    Share

"The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring."

Davies, Robertson on colleges and universities    Share

"A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself."

Ehrlich, Thomas on colleges and universities    Share

"One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on colleges and universities    Share

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on colleges and universities    Share

"The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on colleges and universities    Share

"Oxford is -- Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another."

Forster, Edward M. on colleges and universities    Share

"Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on colleges and universities    Share

"I had always imagined that Clich? was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford."

Guedalla, Philip on colleges and universities    Share

"I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford."

Halifax, Edward F. on colleges and universities    Share

"Towery city and branching between towers; Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmed, lark-charmed, rook-racked, river-rounded."

Hopkins, Gerard Manley on colleges and universities    Share

"The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge."

Huxley, Thomas H. on colleges and universities    Share

"University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable."

Imbert, Sir Peter on colleges and universities    Share

"Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on colleges and universities    Share

"College isn't the place to go for ideas."

Keller, Helen on colleges and universities
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"It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree."

Kennedy, John F. on colleges and universities    Share

"While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap."

Kroc, Ray on colleges and universities    Share

"They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls."

Lawrence, D. H. on colleges and universities    Share

"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."

Lessing, Doris on colleges and universities    Share

"Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse."

Mencken, H. L. on colleges and universities    Share

"American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone."

Paglia, Camille on colleges and universities    Share

"Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top."

Paglia, Camille on colleges and universities    Share

"Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both."

Plath, Sylvia on colleges and universities    Share

"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."

Roosevelt, Theodore on colleges and universities
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"It is dangerous sending a young man who is beautiful to Oxford."

Ryder, Dudley on colleges and universities    Share

"Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies."

Santayana, George on colleges and universities    Share

"Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge."

Trevelyan, G. M. on colleges and universities    Share

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