#universiti

Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country. ↗

— William Kunstler

#be real #cambodia #civil #civil war #closed

[C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite--the delusion that class barriers are not real. That delusion reveals itself in many forms, some of them as beautiful as a glass eye. One is the Liberal doctrine that a prairie demagogue promoted to the United States Senate will instantly show all the sagacity of a Metternich ... another is the doctrine that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will cease thereby to be a moron ... ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#morons #universities #beauty

I think that the balance needs to be restored, and I would note that in the camp in which I am in, one finds libraries, universities, the Internet industry, the manufacturers of digital media, and consumers. ↗

— Rick Boucher

#balance #camp #consumers #digital #finds

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#known #most #our #outside #scholars

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

— Jim Harrison

#market #notoriously #now #oriented #suddenly

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is! ↗

— Johnny Ball

#difficult #elegance #emphasise #how #mathematics

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself. ↗

— Edward Levi

#custodians #itself #man #many #only

The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students coming into the U.K. There's a job here not just for the government, I think there's a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open. ↗

— Theresa May

#coming #got #government #here #i

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#burn #damage #might #universities #worse

I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years. ↗

— John Pople

#i #in the past #many #opportunities #over