Jared Polis Quotes

I went to college at QUT: Queensland University of Technology. I studied for a Bachelors in finance and acting.

I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

I grew up in Florida and went to school there, and ended up going to University of Central Florida.

I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.

No student who shall be expelled from a university by a decision of the university senate which was ratified or prompted by the agent of the government, or who shall have left the institution in order to escape expulsion, shall be received in any other university... .

Taxpayers, lawmakers and donors need to wake from the spell cast by American universities’ past glory. Only then can they summon the courage to withdraw funding and force the necessary change: replacing faux-academic political activists with real academic thinkers—people who care about original thought, not peddling an ideology.

I entered the University of Natal as a preliminary-year student in 1966 and stayed on to June 1972, when I was expelled from the university. I was then doing third-year medicine.

I made loads of English and Irish friends at university and all they wanted to do was have a good time.

When I was studying in Canada, we were so free.

Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it.

The beauty of the university world is that you can use it as a microcosm to parody anything in the 'real' world.

They, students have a degree of freedom that nobody else has.

Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right.

The essence of a university is free and open inquiry, and when it loses that it is no longer a university.

Higher education by and for political radicals was foreseen and banned by the American Association of University Professors, which in a celebrated 1915 policy statement warned teachers “against taking unfair advantage of the student’s immaturity by indoctrinating him with the teacher’s own opinions.” The AAUP already understood that political indoctrination would stamp out opposing views, which means the end of rational analysis and debate, the essential core of higher education. The 1915 statement is still a recognized professional standard—except that almost everywhere it is ignored, at least until the public is looking.

While I wanted to be supportive of Kanye [west] on the phone call, you cannot 'approve' a song you haven't heard. Being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination.

We win or the alumni bash in our teeth. (On the dental plan at NC State)

My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities

I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.

Сollege is the best days of your life. You know, I hate to say that 'cause you're so young and you got plenty ahead of you. But it college is just wonderful. You know, you certainly have some responsibility. You’ve got to show up for class and you have to make your grades, but it's a great time and I hope you enjoy those days, 'cause they're the best.

In all honesty, I never actually did anything wrong (in my eyes, at least) at school or misbehaved in any big way. If it was anything, it was probably just a lot of clowning around.

But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous.

By creating a self-policing, self-reporting, sort of self-monitoring culture through law, through statute, and imposing that on the academic world, I think not only are we losing a significant measure of freedom in academic traditions and in our civil society, but we're actually making ourselves less competitive with every other country around the world that does not do that. Because that's where researchers are going to go and that's where academics are going to go. And ultimately, that's where breakthroughs are going to occur.