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  • I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.

  • Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

  • My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either ignored or left vague, to the point of meaningless.

    "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.
  • College isn't the place to go for ideas.

    Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”
  • I didn't completed my University Education

  • Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

    Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”
  • It is fitting that the Government of the United States should assume the obligation of the establishment and maintenance of a first-class university for the education of colored menand I wish to put in this caveatthat the colored race today, all of them, would be better off if they all had university education.... Of course, the basis of education of the colored people is in the primary schools and in industrial schools.... In those schools must be introduced teachers from such university institutions as this.

  • My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had - everyday I'm learning something new.

  • A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

    "Art of Communicating Ideas". Book by William Joseph Grace, p. 389, 1952.
  • I think we should see whether we are wise trying to educate everybody to a high standard the way we are trying to do now. There has to be a high level of education so everybody is literate, but whether university education is necessary for everyone is open to question.

    Wise   Thinking   Trying  
    Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.66, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

    Funny   Education   Art  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5797, e-artnow
  • The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

    A Texan in England ch. 1 (1945)
  • The years I would have spent at University, I spent building Student Magazine and Virgin Records. For me that was far more fun and satisfying. I have treated everyday as the University education I never had and think I learnt more about business and life than I would have at University in the process.

    Fun   Thinking   Years  
  • Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

  • An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

  • The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1982). “Collected Works”
  • The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

    Winston Churchill (1950). “Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948”, London, Cassell
  • We need university education in Fiji and must seriously think about starting post secondary education in Fiji. In the near future we hope to see a university college in Fiji and ultimately a fully fledged university

  • Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.676, Library of Alexandria
  • The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  • A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

  • The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

  • I didn't even complete my University Education

  • The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.

  • To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or even to give him a University education. These things are all outside a man, and if the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labor. You must in some way or other graft upon the man's nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the Divine.

    Men   Giving   Way  
    William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.45, Cambridge University Press
  • The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

    Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”
  • Education doesn't cease when you leave college or leave the university. Education is a lifetime process.

    FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 04, 2014
  • Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

  • What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

    George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult
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