University Quotes - Page 2

What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role of academia has been to service the status quo, not challenge it in the name of justice, tradition, imagination, human welfare, the free play of the mind or alternative visions of the future. We will not change this simply by increasing state funding of the humanities as opposed to slashing it to nothing. We will change it by insisting that a critical reflection on human values and principles should be central to everything that goes on in universities, not just to the study of Rembrandt or Rimbaud.

Terry Eagleton

Keep learning, keep learning!

Lailah Gifty Akita

Knowledge is learning without a limit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe what they are told, and do they truly revere Fat Man and Little Boy? I have been a visiting writer in several authoritarian and totalitarian states, and usually the question answers itself. Someone in a café makes an offhand remark. A piece of ironic graffiti is scrawled in the men's room. Some group at the university issues some improvised leaflet. The glacier begins to melt; a joke makes the rounds and the apparently immovable regime suddenly looks vulnerable and absurd. But it's almost impossible to convey the extent to which North Korea just isn't like that. South Koreans who met with long-lost family members after the June rapprochement were thunderstruck at the way their shabby and thin northern relatives extolled Fat Man and Little Boy. Of course, they had been handpicked, but they stuck to their line.There's a possible reason for the existence of this level of denial, which is backed up by an indescribable degree of surveillance and indoctrination. A North Korean citizen who decided that it was all a lie and a waste would have to face the fact that his life had been a lie and a waste also. The scenes of hysterical grief when Fat Man died were not all feigned; there might be a collective nervous breakdown if it was suddenly announced that the Great Leader had been a verbose and arrogant fraud. Picture, if you will, the abrupt deprogramming of more than 20 million Moonies or Jonestowners, who are suddenly informed that it was all a cruel joke and there's no longer anybody to tell them what to do. There wouldn't be enough Kool-Aid to go round. I often wondered how my guides kept straight faces. The streetlights are turned out all over Pyongyang—which is the most favored city in the country—every night. And the most prominent building on the skyline, in a town committed to hysterical architectural excess, is the Ryugyong Hotel. It's 105 floors high, and from a distance looks like a grotesquely enlarged version of the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco (or like a vast and cumbersome missile on a launchpad). The crane at its summit hasn't moved in years; it's a grandiose and incomplete ruin in the making. 'Under construction,' say the guides without a trace of irony. I suppose they just keep two sets of mental books and live with the contradiction for now.

Christopher Hitchens

Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths.

Jonathan Stroud

Reading is learning: Secure Future and earnings

Syed Sohail Ahmed

A degree helps to a degree, but your work is largely what you create it to be.

Ryan Lilly

You have to discovery many things by yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading illuminates our path with the brightest light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

There are many things to learn, when will I finish?

Lailah Gifty Akita

The search for wisdom is like a search for gold.

Lailah Gifty Akita

There are so many books to read. What a paradise!

Lailah Gifty Akita

Graduate study is an intensive education. You have to be diligent and determined from the beginning to the very end.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Your every positive action in your life will increase your self-esteem and this self-esteem will boost you for more positive action to take you on success

Rashedur Ryan Rahman

Give yourself a great self-respect to know who you are then your confidence will shine on you

Rashedur Ryan Rahman

Setting a goal is like to set your destination point in your life GPS which could take you to your desire position as you dreamed about...

Rashedur Ryan Rahman

At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to make reputations among the churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures upon the 'harmony of Genesis and Geology.' Like all hypocrites, these men overstate the case to such a degree, and so turn and pervert facts and words that they succeed only in gaining the applause of other hypocrites like themselves. Among the great scientists they are regarded as generals regard sutlers who trade with both armies.Surely the time must come when the wealth of the world will not be wasted in the propagation of ignorant creeds and miraculous mistakes. The time must come when churches and cathedrals will be dedicated to the use of man; when minister and priest will deem the discoveries of the living of more importance than the errors of the dead; when the truths of Nature will outrank the 'sacred' falsehoods of the past, and when a single fact will outweigh all the miracles of Holy Writ.Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then, and not until then, will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher, become a real and blessed truth.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student.

Michael Bassey Johnson

What are the purposes of examinations anyhow? Are they to increase our educational attainment? Or are they instruments used to bring suffering and humiliation and deep hurt to a person who is trying so hard to succeed?

Virginia M. Axline

Education is the key to self-development and empowerment

Lailah Gifty Akita

As universities have turned into businesses, so students have turned into consumers.

Kenan Malik

And little girls went to charm schools. Now you've all got degrees from the University of Sarcasm.

Ian Rankin

Learning and reading will enrich your life with wisdom for living.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I've learned far too much to know everything.

J.S.B. Morse

Lover of books, lover of knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We are capable of learning.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Paying the high cost of education is better than paying the high price of ignorance.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Education costs an arm and a leg, but ignorance costs you your mind and your soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The world’s greatest classroom has no walls: nature.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The truest and noblest gift for yourself is personal development.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Failure is a teacher. It teaches what you ought to learn.

Lailah Gifty Akita

My priority is not about grades. I seek yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You will discover all that pertains to life by reading.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Pursue your dreams with great might.

Lailah Gifty Akita

My priority is not about grades. I yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We must pursue knowledge and wisdom above all other things.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Every beginner possesses a great potential to be an expert in his or her chosen field.

Lailah Gifty Akita

So often we quit on the first failure. We must persistent long enough to achieve success.

Lailah Gifty Akita

There is nothing better than expressions in words.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Adversity or opportunity is university.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status.

Criss Jami

Education is one of the greatest gift for mankind. Each one of us must seek this enlightenment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Day by day, there exists the possibility for the dream to come true.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life gives us experiences for personal development. Appreciate the lessons and be a learner.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If only employees knew this...there is no hand out just because you got a degree. You still gotta make $ for the biz (employer), if you choose not to make $ for yourself (freelancer / ent).

Richie Norton

You can begin to dream, to love, to dance, to read, to sing, to study, to paint, to teach, to draw, to swim, to exercise, to write….!

Lailah Gifty Akita

Great souls encouraged us to be great.

Lailah Gifty Akita

What matters is not how long it takes but the grace of fulfilled dream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Pain is the University of Life

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Education will teach you ephemeral things. God will teach you wonders.

Michael Bassey Johnson

What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game would be crazy enough to hire me. I wouldn't even make a good ditch-digger, I'd start tearing apart the sewer-system, trying to pick-axe and unearth all those chthonic symbols - pipes, valves, cloacal conduits... No, no. I'll have to be a slave in the paper-mines for all time.

Margaret Atwood

Upon reading, great stories by Great Spirits, the glorious inspiration penetrated our soul; we can’t help but to shed tears. It was a soul soothing and a deep spiritual awaken.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life consists of books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest literature is the Biblical stories.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Historical gap is created due to missing written records.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Adversity quickens the mind, awakens the spirit and strength the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But there is no university without humane inquiry, which means that universities and advanced capitalism are fundamentally incompatible. And the political implications of that run far deeper than the question of student fees.

Terry Eagleton

lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays…

Stephen Fry

History has been stolen from us and replaced with guilt inducing lies.

Stefan Molyneux

...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

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