385 Quotes About University

  • Author Michaela Daphne
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    I want to be an artist. I want to get as far away from here as possible and travel the world and paint what I see. I don't need some stupid piece of paper to tell me I can do that.

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  • Author Roderick A. Ferguson
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    Remaining independent and functioning autonomously in the university is necessary, especially for the critical intellectual who does not see institutional favors, decorations, and promotions as the goal of our work but understands that the creation of critical masses of minoritized subjects of all types within this stubborn place and other like it is the prize.

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  • Author Joyce Carol Oates
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    Of my own experience at Princeton as a graduate, with honors, of the Class of 1927, I will not speak: except to say that it was instructive, and illuminating; and if I had to repeat it again, I would hang myself.

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  • Author Ben Shapiro
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    Only at [a] university is a riot an "uprising," a police officer a thug, and a criminal a hero.

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  • Author Ivan Illich
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    The university graduate has been schooled for selectiveservice among the rich of the world.Üniversite bitirenler dünya varsıllarına seçkin hizmetlerde bulunmaları hedefiyle okutulmuşlardır.

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  • Author Russell Kirk
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    These men were not servants, but masters; not the agents of community, but seekers after divine love and wisdom. They undertook their work with high consecration. And the academy or the university was a place consecrated to the apprehension of an order more than human and a duty more than mundane.

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  • Author Danzy Senna
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    She has decided all university campuses are alike- the sense of possibility and stasis. She thinks this too: all graduate students, if you look closely enough, exude the same aura of privilege and poverty.

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