University Curriculum Quotes

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.

I'm not sure I approve of theatre as a university course. I think theatre's something you do. I mean, literature is a subject; theatre is practical.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.

Stanford may be the best university in the world, but you can get all the way through here without knowing where your food came from, without being able to say where we came from, without being able to give a coherent description of why the climate is changing and why we should be concerned about it. So I started teaching a course in human evolution and the environment that's open to all Stanford students, no prerequisites.

Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.