Carl Sandburg Quotes

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

Before all else, the modern university is a business selling a product.

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

The school intends to provide an education based upon religious principles which, preserving the modesty and gentleness of the female character, should so far cultivate a girl’s intellectual powers as to fit her for the discharge of those responsible duties which devolve upon her as a wife, mother and friend, the natural companion and helpmate for man.

We short history; the Chinese long history.

… a college near as large as Babel; sufficient to contain ten times the number of students who would ever enroll.

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

I had been a college teacher. I had taught Greek mythology.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

Where did I study? I went to P.S. 6. I went to Collegiate, Middlesex, Tufts, Juilliard.

I love this university, and although I might be retiring from the presidency, my work with Ohio State will continue.

Harvard is the home of American ideas.

If I could help educate our children at an institution for higher learning, that would be a noble thing.

I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying.

When I attended Emerson College in Boston, it was confined to the Back Bay, but now it has taken over a lot of Boston, which is great.

Any attempt to recreate a world of 1814, or 100 years before that - I think it's important to understand that the people of the time had a different concept of what reality was. Their reality was much more haunted.

Acting is not a thing where I'm from. Finishing school is a big thing. Not a lot of people finish school.

I kind of had that Parma, Ohio, mentality that after high school, you go to college. Then after college, you get a job; then you get a family. And after that, you just stick around Parma.

I worked at Columbia University's School of Public Health.

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!

I did go to university and I did teach school for a year.

I would have gone to Loughborough to study business management and was looking forward to that very much.

I was pre-med at Glasgow University. I was from a family who were of the mind that if you were clever enough to be a doctor or a lawyer, why wouldn't you be?

In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the Academy of Architecture and, with it, an Italian-speaking university in Switzerland.

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