John Stuart Mill Quotes

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

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

[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and an ornament...The university rests on the public will and on public appreciation.

Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.

I loved the college experience of studying.

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

I've been thinking about going back to university. I need more tools to continue to apply to the music. I've got to open myself up to more language.

I really missed going to college. I missed not having that education and that experience.

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

The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

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

Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student's life, and an institution should do what it can to make these years absorbing and enjoyable.

I entered Hofstra University as a psychology major.

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!

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

Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.

The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.

Today, the entire country is an immense University.

I had never gone to college, I left school at a really early age, and all of a sudden I've got six really great friends hanging out with me every night. And we were a really tight group, and we just had an absolute blast.

A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow.

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.

Three years in jail is a good corrective for three years at Harvard.