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"The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in." »Robert J. Kibbee
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"The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles ... an amateur promoter, a glad-hander, embryo Rotarian, caf-society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind." »Harold Taylor
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"Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student." »George Iles
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"JUDGE, n A law student who marks his own papers." »H.L. Mencken
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"When the student is ready. . . the lesson appears." »Gene Oliver
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"I am a student. Please do not fold, spindle, or mutilate me." »Slogan of the Free Speech Movement, 1964.
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"Judge: a law student who marks his own papers." »H. L. Mencken
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"A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers." »H. L. Mencken
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"You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses ... storming around about this issue. (On student protesters against Vietnam War)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait." »A. Whitney Brown
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"The best thing to do with a degree is to forget it. (at the university of Salford)" »Prince Phillip
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"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology." »Clive James
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"The true university of these days is a collection of books." »Thomas Carlyle
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"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students." »John Anthony Ciardi
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"If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you." »Robert F. Goheen
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"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them." »Flannery O'Connor
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"university politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." »Henry Kissinger
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"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools." »Doris Lessing
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"Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week." »Eric Temple Bell
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"If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you." »Robert F. Goheen
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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." »Thomas Carlyle
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"The university's characteristic state may be summarized by the words of the lady who said, I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something." »Hanna Holborn Gray
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"A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else." »Richard Hofstadter
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"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world." »Howard Gardner
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"The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition." »Richard Clark
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"Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation." »Lewis S Feuer
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"The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college the task is to help him become a self-educating man." »C. Wright Mills
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