University Quotes - Page 40

• EdX will be a creating a platform which will be open source, not for profit, and a portal for a website where universities will offer their courses. For example, MIT courses will be offered as MITx and Harvard courses as HarvardX.

  Anant Agarwal

  Creating, Example, Mit

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• When I see the move of RFID into universities, it concerns me, ... It is sending a message that not only do we not have to worry about privacy but you can profit from it by a career perspective.

  Katherine Albrecht

  Moving, Careers, Perspective

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• The University of North Carolina-Greensboro has ordered a Christian club to allow non-Christians as leaders. While we're at it, let's put high school dropouts in charge of the University.

  Fred Thompson

  Christian, School, Leader

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• President Bush delivered a commencement speech at a university in Wisconsin. A very inspirational speech. Apparently Bush told the students, 'You can do anything in life if your parents work hard enough.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Hard Work, Parent, President

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• Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.

  Denis Dutton

  Art, Self Esteem, Museums

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• The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Future, Past, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.70, Library of America

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• Violence or the threat of violence [must] never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Time, Men, Discipline

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• The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Men, Rights, Issues

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• I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Education, Boots, Wretched

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• The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the university.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Book, Professors, Said

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.134, Cambridge University Press

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• The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the
  Trinity. . . .

  H. L. Mencken

  Support, President, Vacancy

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• It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England; and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country.

  Walter Scott

  Country, Book, Oxford

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The Waverley Novels: In Twelve Volumes, Printed from the Latest English Editions, Embracing the Author's Last Corrections, Prefaces, and Notes”, p.327

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• In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Army, Doctors

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “A Study in Scarlet”, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• In high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who have been rigorously prepared in universities and through supervised practice in schools, and who remain in education for all of their careers.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Country, Teacher, School

  "The Global Search for Education: What Is the Fourth Way?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

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• I have some unfinished business to complete at the University of Oregon.

  Chip Kelly

  Unfinished Business, Oregon, Unfinished

  "Broncos coordinator to speak with Raiders again". www.sfgate.com. January 24, 2012.

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• Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

  Adam Ross

  University Professors, Said, Late

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• My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.

  Robert Lacey

  School, Sunday, Boys

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• There were many generations of Latino people coming to this country, coming from difficult political or social situations in their own countries, and they worked very hard to have their kids go to universities. Well, those kids came out and they are now doctors and architects, or they are on the Supreme Court. That has a reflection in Hollywood. So, we are actually very proud that our characters are Latinos, and I think it's good for diversity and cultural interaction.

  Antonio Banderas

  Country, Character, Kids

  "Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek PUSS IN BOOTS Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 28, 2011.

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• I remember the university as being very encouraging, especially to experimentation. I think you always get a lot of musicians in any art community, and it seemed like a lot of people I knew worked on films that got made locally.

  Neil Farber

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What led me to drawing was seeing so much self-important, pretentious, conceptual-type art in university. I wanted to reject that by making quick, fun art.

  Neil Farber

  Art, Fun, Drawing

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• All money for agricultural extension, land grant universities has been toward developing industrial food. Lots of money has been invested toward maximizing yield. If you took even a small amount of that money and put it toward organic research, I don't have any doubts you could match those yields.

  Michael Pollan

  Yield, Land, Doubt

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I remembered that throughout my growing up and education and pursuing my dreams and desires, going into acting, and, of course, getting through Yale University and on and on and on, that being average, being mediocre was not an option that you should be proud of.

  Angela Bassett

  Dream, Growing Up, Yale

  Source: www.hollywood.com

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• I believed in looking at people as individuals, not in groups. I hated groups; still do. And I saw particularly the university, the university artists really acted as a group. The others didn't so much, but the university people took advantage of that and behaved like a group, rather than as individuals. They had a lot of power that way.

  Tom Robbins

  Artist, People, Saws

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• Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.

  Ray Bradbury

  Library, Use, Our Lives

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• I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and I teach and I go from university to university. I'm one of the old, but I still go around, but I only see those who are not like that, I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Mean, Writing

  Interview with Professor Georg Klein, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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