Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.

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

We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.

Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education.

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.

I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.

I studied at Howard. I studied at Oxford.

My family has always valued my education.

One of my main reasons for going to college is to try to get a liberal arts background.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

If the colleges were better, if they had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become talents, - if they could cause that a mind not profound should become profound, - we should all rush to their gates: instead of contriving inducements to draw students, you would need to set police at the gates to keep order in the in-rushing multitude.

I went to great schools. Wharton School, a lot of great places.

Schools have never been about getting access to information. That's the job of libraries. Schools and universities have nobler missions as gentle gatekeepers. Their role is to control ideas on the loose and to present the best and noblest ideas to the young.

I went to basic school for 10 years, and then I went to college.

It was my dream to come to Oxford and study political science.

Nothing substitutes for a great education.

I wasn't really comfortable going to college.

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the character of this public education, and how young persons should be educated, are questions which remain to be considered. As things are, there is disagreement about the subjects. For mankind are by no means agreed about the things to be taught, whether we look to virtue or the best life. Neither is it clear whether education is more concerned with intellectual or with moral virtue.