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We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.
— Marcus Buckingham
Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do give us useful things as well!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.
— Jane Jacobs
Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.
— Morris Kline
Universities are full of knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in and the seniors take none away, and knowledge accumulates.
— A. Lawrence Lowell
We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.
— William P. Leahy
After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.
— Phyllis Schlafly
Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
— Carter G. Woodson
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world ... they're all in American universities.
— Milton Friedman
We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.
— Stanley Fish
We try to preach innovation. We provide resources; we invite speakers in from universities to talk about new ideas.
— Irwin M. Jacobs
Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Our universities today are better equipped than ever, and the wars keep getting worse.
— Jacque Fresco
A collection of books is the best of all universities.
— Thomas Carlyle
Since 9/11, some of the most violent terrorists we've encountered were radicalized or recruited at universities.
— Raymond Kelly
Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
— Walter Annenberg
I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.
— Cheryl Strayed
I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.
— Thomas Perry
American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.
— John Archibald Wheeler
many of these excellent young people could not, as a general rule, either read or write, as these activities are understood in our best universities.
— Bernard Bailyn
Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.
— Pyotr Kropotkin
The truth is: nobody bothers to kill poets in America. It's enough to buy them in universities. Undead.
— Erica Jong
There's no question in my mind that there's a problem with the funding of our universities here in Quebec.
— Pierre Moreau
Universities are seminaries to produce Leftists
— Dennis Prager
It fulfils the purpose of Universities if they can find out ways of achieving those feats which haven't been achieved till now.
— Narendra Modi
The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.
— George Berkeley
Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.
— Richard Levin
More than 13,000 Malaysians travel to the U.K. to study in British universities every year.
— Najib Razak
All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.
— Constance Baker Motley
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
— Robert M. Hutchins
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 can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe.
— Russell Smith
There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.
— Thomas Hobbes
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
— Alan Dershowitz
Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
— Karin Slaughter
I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.
— Oriana Fallaci
Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education.
— Robert Reich
Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.
— Arthur Erickson
A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.
— Charles Babbage
My parents didn't go to university and weren't brought up in England. They hadn't heard of any other universities other than 'Cambridge' or 'Oxford.'
— Richard Ayoade
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
— Judith Martin
The highest percentage of England's top jobs are filled by graduates from about two different universities.
— Keira Knightley
Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind.
— John Ortberg
When you're a kid, your first five or six years, you converge all the time. School is about training that out of you, especially universities.
— Lawrence Weschler
The University of Life is greater than the universities of men.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Why don't universities specify the length of time a degree will be fully applicable and useful?
— Dan Miller
Give money to universities - that would be asking for trouble. All those places do is turn out more Communists.
— Lang Hancock
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
— Jacques Barzun
Today's college students demand a self-segregating "safe space". Rosa Parks spinning in her grave.
— A.E. Samaan
In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.
— Joseph Beuys
In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer.
— Frederick Lenz
If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.
— Charles Babbage
Universities no longer spend as much time bragging about the size of their libraries. The
— Seth Godin
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Finance as taught in universities is generally divided into three areas: (1) financialmanagement, (2) capital markets, and (3) investments. — Eugene F. Brigham
Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel.
— Ezra Taft Benson
The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.
— Dennis Prager
The universities will ask for money back so they can put their name on the side of a building without fully educating athletes .
— Eddie George
Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony
— John Perry Barlow
Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.
— Dean Koontz
If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.
— Paul A. Baran
The fact that I spent my life in universities in a manner that I no longer have close identification with bricklayers is a pain to me.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
— Jim Harrison
The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.
— Mandell Creighton
The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings
— John Stuart Mill
I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.
— Freeman A. Hrabowski III
American colleges and universities are propaganda machines
— Walter Benn Michaels