Quotes Tagged "university"

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Life is still better than University. In school, your teacher is the fruit picker and you are the open fruit basket. Then you take those fruits and make cakes and pies. But life is going to give you the chance to go out there and pick those fruits yourself. Then you can eat them, or make them into something else; any which way, your own hands picked them!

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

For me, it does not 'miss' if (the Potteries Thinkbelt study) goes into the archive, not as an example of how railway carriages can be used for teaching, but as one of the most powerful question marks ever placed against the architecture of university education.

(Cedric Price produced the Potteries Thinkbelt) ...project which questioned most of the cherished establishment premises of university education and substituted in their place their complete inversion.

A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society…It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them and a force in urging them.

When I remember my college, my Alma mater, I remember the trees and the flowers. There were many fun, many celebrations, but only the trees have the lasting impressions.

Grande coisa a cultura com aquecimento central; e grandes obras devem ter saído do princípio de condensação do vapor, em subtileza de análise, capacidade de saber e gosto das linhas gerais que tudo enformam e, nos libros, deformam. Parece-me que a solidez do ensino universitário dos países do Norte muito lhe deve: o procurarem abrigo nas salas pessoas de idade, com venerável aspecto de sábio, e que muitas vezes não são mais do que o cocheiro aposentado da anedota, obriga os professores a manter-se perfeitaente em dia com a ciência e a avançarem mesmo um pouco mais, se lhes for possível.

I am an educated person living a global life in an interconnected world.

There's a reason elite schools speak of training leaders, not thinkers - holders of power, not its critics.

Professors reduce their office hours—or skip them entirely—and send students to the much cheaper teaching assistants as the efficiency fairies work to preserve more time for faculty to spend doing all the paperwork required by a burgeoning administrator staff that has nothing better to do than to create new paperwork requirements.

Generally, education is to curiosity what circumcision is to the foreskin.

Illiteracy is not only if you didn’t go to school. Illiteracy is when the lecturer teach you and you didn’t understand his formula of teaching. That’s also an illiterate

The highest purpose of education is to unlearn what we once took for granted, to replace certainty with subtlety, prejudice with compassion, and destiny with possibility.

Make your education valuable. Apply what you learnt. Refuse to take the back seat and watch things happen. Join the change and be part of the change.

Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle down for survival.

Education is a system designed to make you feel inferior, yet they encourage you to accept it in order to be superior

You have no idea how many men are spoiled by what is called education. For the most part, colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. If Shakespeare had graduated at Oxford, he might have been a quibbling attorney, or a hypocritical parson.

I will miss you not because you taught me, not because you helped me on all steps of education; but only because you made me a leader to lead as an perfect Electrical Engineer.

The difference between a good and a poor student is result