Elizabeth McCracken Quotes

I returned to Pune in the 90s to do my MBA from the University of Pune as in that period there were not many MBA institutes in the city!

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University.

Seek to establish an environment conducive to study in the home.

Qinghua was first established as a preparatory school in 1911. In 1928, it became a university. In 1929, my father joined Qinghua as a professor, so that was also the year that I moved to that campus because my father brought the whole family along.

I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.

I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.

At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.

My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office.

I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.

I had a call to the University of Miami where I'd run a revival in 1950.

I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

I went to Syracuse University.

I'm very unorganized.

I went to the University of Washington in Seattle. This was a very good place to study, and I learned a lot. But it wasn't the right place for my Ph.D.

I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!

I live like a crazy old pack rat.

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

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I spent many, many hours in the stack at the University of Washington library just wandering around, when my dad was working, as a kid.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

I thought it'd be cool to start my own university, in a way.