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University
«Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.»
Author: Abbott Lawrence Lowell
(Lawyer, University President)
| About:
Knowledge,
University
| Keywords:
accumulates, freshman, freshmen, seniors, universities
«In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools»
Author: Doris Lessing
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
University
| Keywords:
Learning to, The Law, the University, tolerate, university
«It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.»
Author: George McGovern
(Politician)
| About:
Politicians,
University
| Keywords:
aspects, opportunist, opportunists, prescribe, terribly, untrue
«A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.»
Author: John Ciardi
| About:
University
| Keywords:
Colleges and universities, college student, faculty, students, The Faculty, university
«No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.»
Author: Lawrence Clark Powell
(Critic, Librarian, Writer)
| About:
Libraries,
University
| Keywords:
correspondingly, risen, university
«A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.»
Author: Richard Hofstadter
| About:
University
| Keywords:
Free Inquiry, inquiry, sacrificed, university
«Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist»
Author: Robert Maynard Hutchins
(Educator)
| About:
Freedom,
University
| Keywords:
discussion, inquiry, university
«It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Ideas,
University
| Keywords:
currently, prevalent, subscribed, subscribe to, subscribing
«I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint-no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided...»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
| About:
Communism,
Students,
Teachers and teaching,
University
| Keywords:
academic, academic freedom, advocate, distasteful, Marxism, professor, viewpoint, viewpoints