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Quotes about colleges and univers
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To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises. (Alazraqui Carlos)
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! (Alazraqui Carlos)
The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it. The fault lies with your moldy systems, your logic of 2 + 2 = 4. The fault lies with you, Chancellors, caught in the net of syllogisms. You manufacture engineers, magistrates, doctors, who know nothing of the true mysteries of the body or the cosmic laws of existence. False scholars blind outside this world, philosophers who pretend to reconstruct the mind. The least act of spontaneous creation is a more complex and revealing world than any metaphysics. (Alazraqui Carlos)
I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. (Alazraqui Carlos)
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Remote and ineffectual don. (Alazraqui Carlos)
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. (Alazraqui Carlos)
What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life. (Alazraqui Carlos)
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. (Alazraqui Carlos)
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. (Alazraqui Carlos)
A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself. (Alazraqui Carlos)
One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail. (Alazraqui Carlos)
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints. (Alazraqui Carlos)
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed. (Alazraqui Carlos)
Oxford is -- Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another. (Alazraqui Carlos)
Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose. (Alazraqui Carlos)
I had always imagined that Clich was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford. (Alazraqui Carlos)
I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford. (Alazraqui Carlos)
If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means -- from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath. (Alazraqui Carlos)
Towery city and branching between towers; Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmed, lark-charmed, rook-racked, river-rounded. (Alazraqui Carlos)
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. (Alazraqui Carlos)
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. (Alazraqui Carlos)
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree. (Alazraqui Carlos)
While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap. (Alazraqui Carlos)
They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls. (Alazraqui Carlos)
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum. (Alazraqui Carlos)
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