#universities

...Come on let’s see the degree.” Katherine unrolled her scroll displaying a long declaration in Latin affixed with a red seal proclaiming her a Master of Art. “Imagine working for years to obtain a piece of paper we can hardly read ” Katherine joked. “And to officially declare you have talent ” Suzy returned. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#college-degree #credentials #degree #funny #humor

Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#attracted #black #college #colleges #delaware

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

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

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties. ↗

— Edward Albee

#both #critics #dull #faculties #like

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#displeasure #distorted #examination #havens #inhibited

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#employment #entertainment #exist #ideas #knowledge

We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities. ↗

— William P. Leahy

#catholic #discussion #had #issues #universities