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Letter "T" » the University
«Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it»
Author: Allan Bloom
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About:
Politics,
Students
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Keywords:
arrive,
arrive at,
critical,
cynical,
heritage,
inspired,
lacking,
students,
the University,
university,
wherewithal
«In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools»
«Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.»
«If you feel you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.»
«I, on the other hand, am a fully-rounded human being, with a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me»
Author: Rowan Atkinson
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Actor)
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Keywords:
diploma,
diplomas,
kicked,
knocks,
on the other hand,
rounded,
School of,
shit,
The school,
the University,
university
«And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(
Writer)
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Keywords:
actual,
age-old,
Age of Reason,
exactly,
hoping,
inns,
method,
mostly,
one to,
putting,
Taverns,
The Age,
the University,
university,
vicinity,
worked
«A senior always feels like the university is going to the kids»
«I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.»
«If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter»
Author: Margaret Mead
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Keywords:
cloister,
cloistered,
cloisters,
grasp,
laboratories,
laboratory,
subject matter,
the University,
twelve,
university,
walls
«A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution (the University of Virginia)»