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John Ciardi
: A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
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As a result of its generous stand [Robert Maynard Hutchins’ controversial policy of admitting students after their second year of high-school], the University of Chicago’s undergraduate college acts as the greatest magnet for neurotic juveniles since the Children’s Crusade, with Robert Maynard Hutchins…playing the role of Stephen the Shepherd Boy.
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
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Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings.
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The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.
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Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
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Carl Rogers :
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I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
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Camille Paglia :
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American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.
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One of my duties, this week, is to open the new Ustinov college," he confesses, "and while I'm delighted that Durham should honour its former chancellor this way — and I sincerely hope it continues this tradition for me — I can't help feeling that an American university would only have done so had the chancellor also handed over a substantial amount of dosh.
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I fear —as far as I can tell— that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.
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You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
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A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
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Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
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Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
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There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.
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Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
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