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«They wanted a great university without building a great university. They knew a lot about football, but not a lot about academia.»
«Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony»
Author: John Perry Barlow
| About:
University
| Keywords:
expel, impose, ironies, irony, universities
«There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.»
«The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.»
Author: Larry Wall
| About:
Law and lawyers,
University
| Keywords:
controlled, Harvard Law, humidity, nutrition, organism, pleases, temperature, temperatures
«The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.»
Author: Richard Hofstadter
| About:
University
| Keywords:
corruption, cruelties, delicate, mixed, splendid, suspend, suspended, suspending, suspends, The Eternal, the University, university
«There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.»
Author: Robert M. Hutchins
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
University
| Keywords:
centers, distinguished, justification, universities
«The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.»
Author: Anton Chekhov
| About:
University
| Keywords:
abilities, incapability, including, the University, university
«The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
University
| Keywords:
affect, appreciation, issue, modes, The Creation, The Task
«That a national university in this country is a thing to be desired, has always been my decided opinion»
«The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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University
| Keywords:
furthered, positively, richly, the University, thinker
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