Universities Quotes

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.

Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

I bring other constituencies - I also have ties to minority communities. And obviously, to the world of world-class research universities. So I can bring some constituencies that I'm used to working with.

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.

Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.

We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.

My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.

The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students coming into the U.K. There's a job here not just for the government, I think there's a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open.

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.

When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.

As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing.

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.