Jane Jacobs Quotes

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.

The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in the United States.

Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

I have not the advantage of a classical education, and no man should, in my judgement, accept a degree he cannot read.

Let's say you work at a university or a college. You are a cog in the one of the great inequality producing machines this country has known.

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.

And there's this place called college! I mean, they want you to care, dig it, care about this education trip, and they don't care enough themselves to make it as attractive as the crap game across the street!

Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

Universities are seminaries to produce Leftists

Most people, I suspect, still have in their minds an image of America as the great land of college education, unique in the extent to which higher learning is offered to the population at large. That image used to correspond to reality. But these days young Americans are considerably less likely than young people in many other countries to graduate from college. In fact, we have a college graduation rate that's slightly below the average across all advanced economies.

I went to the University of Virginia and I came from, I grew up in suburban Philadelphia.

We would like to see science and higher education developing here [on the Russian Far East], so that it could become one of the major research centres in the entire APR system. Undoubtedly a lot remains to be done here, but given the labour market demand, the relevance of such a university is undeniable.

If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America's system of higher education must remain the world's leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.

We gotta figure out a way to pay our teachers more. They're like surrogate parents away from home. They have such a huge responsibility and they're underappreciated and underpaid.

They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking after the large vivarium where they happily passed their days was given to first-year students, on the basis that if they got things wrong there wouldn't be too much education wasted.

College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

This isn't higher education studying itself. There are a lot of higher education people here. But there are also people here who are directly involved in whether or not (the United States is) going to have the good jobs in the future.

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

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

Refinancing won't fix everything that's broken with our [American] higher education system. We've got to bring down the cost of college. And we need more accountability for how schools spend federal dollars.

It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.

To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university.

The education system is where young skulls full of mush are programmed and propagandized into the system. They are highly valuable. That's why they're subsidized. You know, universities are approaching the same circumstance we have in health care. What it costs is not related at all to market forces. Meaning what it costs is not related to what people can afford. You get right down to it, how many Americans, how many families can afford 20,000, 30,000, $50,000 a year or semester to send their kids off to college? It has to be subsidized.