#universities

I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#athletes #back #ball #bouncing #continue

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#haven #i #i write #lecture #silent

Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin. ↗

— Tom Barrett

#education #k-12 #needs #priority #technical

The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#american people #among #best #entrepreneurs #great

I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#europe #find #i #nearly #nurture

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone. ↗

— David Brooks

#aspects #building #character #comes #educated

But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions of the past 30 years. It needs a return to the conviction that economic growth and the affluence it brings is a means and not an end. The end is what it does to the lives, life-chances and hopes of people. Look at London. Of course it matters to all of us that London's economy flourishes. But the test of the enormous wealth generated in patches of the capital is not that it contributed 20%-30% to Britain's GDP but how it affects the lives of the millions who live and work there. What kind of lives are available to them? Can they afford to live there? If they can't, it is not compensation that London is also a paradise for the ultra-rich. Can they get decently paid jobs or jobs at all? If they can't, don't brag about all those Michelin-starred restaurants and their self-dramatising chefs. Or schooling for children? Inadequate schools are not offset by the fact that London universities could field a football team of Nobel prize winners. ↗

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

#capitalism #economics #education #london #morality

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout. ↗

— Tom Hayden

#build #california #clout #gangs #money

Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding. ↗

— Charles Vest

#between #came #clear #door #eroding

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. ↗

— Mark Strand

#creative writing #creative writing programs #departments #english #happens