#universities

When I'm makin' lectures to these universities, I tell 'em I like that little building because when I run short a audience, if I can get three people in there I've got a good crowd. ↗

— Howard Finster

#because #building #crowd #get #good

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#course #fragmentation #our #systems #their

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

— Stanley Fish

#democracy #doing #learn #teach #universities

I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress. ↗

— Charles Vest

#been #believe #building #clearly #coalitions

The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities. ↗

— Charles Vest

#coalition #concept #grew #group #grown

Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public. ↗

— Charles Vest

#both #congress #effectively #general #general public

The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard. ↗

— Jack Welch

#forever #hard #idea #keeps #now

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

— Orson Welles

#major #mud #pies #teach #today

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind. ↗

— George Will

#between #choice #eligible #equally #food

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#gets #i #i think #much #personally