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In India, writers are underpaid. Universities should start new courses to create more opportunities for them.
After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.
The Enlightenment ideal, which all universities claim to endorse, is that everyone should think for themselves.
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.
Since 9/11, some of the most violent terrorists we've encountered were radicalized or recruited at universities.
The SAT allows less-privileged students access to universities that previously were the bastions of the wealthy.
Because I did well at the prep school, I got to have more options as some different universities gave me offers.
When I visit universities in the U.A.E., the U.S. and across Europe, I see the faces of the leaders of tomorrow.
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
I will withhold federal funding from universities that shut down debate and can't stand different points of view.
Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education.
We try to preach innovation. We provide resources; we invite speakers in from universities to talk about new ideas.
People wanted to do science outside of classical institutions like universities or big corporations, so we embraced it.
Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind.
Students want free education because their parents are struggling. The fees of universities and technikons are too high.
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
As one of the country's largest land-grant universities, Ohio State must play a critical role in moving our country forward.
State universities in Illinois are a microcosm of our state government - broken with work rules and administrative bureaucracy.
Universities have come to realize that online is not a fad. The question is not whether to engage in this area but how to do it.
Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.
Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe.
I'm often asked by search committees for public and private universities to help them think about how to find their next president.
Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel.
I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.
As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
The fact that I spent my life in universities in a manner that I no longer have close identification with bricklayers is a pain to me.
I had a difficult time getting my arms around Einstein's work, even when I was a physics major at one of the top universities in India.
Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.
When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.
Universities are not like supermarkets: their job is to serve the country, not just the customers who happen to walk through their doors.
I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.
Western societies in general and universities in particular have not always been immune from institutional sexism. This is incontestable.
One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online as well.
Kim Il Sung University should set an example for all other universities of the country to follow in introducing innovative teaching methods.
Because of our youthful population, we suffer from unemployment in Iran. We need more universities and more job opportunities for the young.
Most of India is rural; there is a huge population in India not being tapped for their excellence. They have no access to great universities.
I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.
When you're a kid, your first five or six years, you converge all the time. School is about training that out of you, especially universities.
Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.
My parents have been married 50-some years, and I've never heard them fight. I got the chance to attend great universities and medical school.
I've spent a good deal of time in the Middle East over the years, lecturing at universities in places like Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and Morocco.
As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.