Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The level of our educational development is high and serves as a strong basis for our future progress.

Higher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation.

If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a better place, then at or very near the top would be its commitment to universal education.

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.

I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.

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

Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.

If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.

A University with sectarian professorships becomes, of course, a sectarian monopoly: with professorships of rival sects, it would be an arena of Theological Gladiators. Without any such professorships, it may incur, for a time at least, the imputation of irreligious tendencies, if not designs. The last difficulty was thought more manageable than either of the others….there seems to be no alternative but between a public University without a theological professorship, and sectarian seminaries without a University

The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.

Education is a very large area, and we have our hands full. For example, SSN has to become a university; we have to keep adding departments like it is with universities in the U.S.

In view of the importance of education, Punjab government is making all-out efforts for the promotion of education throughout the province.

Campuses of best universities of the world will be set up in Knowledge Park.

Jawaharlal Nehru did a huge amount for education in India.

I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education, and placing our rising generation on the level of our sister states (which they have proudly held heretofore), I was discharging the odious function of a physician pouring medicine down the throat of a patient insensible of needing it.

I think one percent of the population attended college when Wallace Stevens and Robert Frost and Gertrude Stein were at Harvard. Now I think forty percent of Americans have some college education. That's an astronomical change.

In the sciences particularly the large public universities must and do take an active role in fostering creativity and independence; otherwise the fields will wither, and along with them even the aspirations of wealth and power.

It is by education that we become prepared for our duties and responsibilities in life. If one is badly educated he must naturally fail in the proper assumption and practice of his duties and responsibilities.

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

In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.

We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

Education is a slow-moving but powerful force. It may not be fast enough or strong enough to save us from catastrophe, but it is the strongest force available for that purpose and in its proper place, therefore, is not at the periphery, but at the center of international relations.

We need university education in Fiji and must seriously think about starting post secondary education in Fiji. In the near future we hope to see a university college in Fiji and ultimately a fully fledged university

The facilities for advanced education must be evened out and multiplied. No one who can take advantage of a higher education should be denied this chance. You cannot conduct a modern community except with an adequate supply of persons upon whose education, whether humane, technical, or scientific, much time and money have been spent.