385 Quotes About University

No wonder I've never been in love, I'm too busy day-dreaming about it.

it's rapidly becoming clear that the so-called best years of my life are never going to happen

أحسن وأوسع جامعة : الكتب

في المحيط العام... الأعمال تتنوع وتتعدد في نظامها وأغراضها وعدد ساعاتها، ومنها ما يندرج تحـــــــــت الاعمال المهنية أو الوظيفية أو المجتمعية....الخ، لكن القاسم المشترك الأكبر بين كل هذه الأعمـــــــــال هو أن يؤدى العمل بشكل " متفانٍ" ، والتفاني لا يأتي إلا حينما يقع حب الوظيفة أو المهنة إلى القلب فينبعث (الحُبُ ) تلقائياً إلى العقل فيُحَسّن الأداء رغبةً لا دفعاً. -هبة الله ،التفاني في العمل

Getting a good job, working long hours, keeping your skills relevant, navigating the politics of an organization, finding a live/work balance...these are all really hard. In contrast, respecting institutions, having manners, demonstrating a level of humility...these are all (relatively) easy. Get the easy stuff right. In and of themselves they will not make you successful. However, not possessing them will hold you back and you will not achieve your potential.

Make ourselves attractive to students?" said the Archchancellor. "Mr Stibbons, the whole idea of a university is that it should be hard to get into.

Les vraies universités ne sont pas celles que nous avons construites. C'est facile à dire une fois qu'on le sait. Les vraies universités subvertissent, elles corrompent, ce sont des institutions dangereuses et, qui plus est, elles peuvent être très coûteuses. Et pourtant, il y a un danger - et un coût - bien plus grand à créer une société dans laquelle personne ne sait ce que signifie être réellement libre.

Au moyen âge… L’introduction du trivium est attestée: SÂDI, un noir lettré de Tombouctou, auteur du célèbre ouvrage intitulé le ‘Tarikh es-Soudan’ cite parmi les matières qu’il avait maitrisées, la logique, la dialectique, la grammaire, la rhétorique, sans parler du droit et autres disciplines…les longues listes des matières étudiées et des savants ou lettrés africains qui les enseignent a l’Université de Tombouctou…

Charles Peirce wrote the definition of University in the Century Dictionary. He called it an institution for purposes of study. They wrote to him that their notion had been that a university was an institution for instruction. He wrote back that if they had any such notion they were grievously mistaken, that a university had not and never had had anything to do with instruction and that until we got over this idea we should not have any university in this country.