#universities

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#american #consider #creative #creative writing #culture

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

My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know. ↗

— Howard Finster

#calls #garden #know #me #out

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

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#colleges #open #southern #state #students

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#how #knowing #knows #little #man

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

Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#colleges #elementary #everything #high #high schools

The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#deceive #minds #open #other #say

Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#capitalism #free #free market #generations #increasingly