Top 9 American Universities Quotes

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.

Way, American Universities, University

"'Marx? I never really managed to read it' – an interview with Thomas Piketty". Interview with Isaac Chotiner, www.newstatesman.com. May 6, 2014.

There's a lot wrong [with American universities]. I'd remove 3/4 of the faculty - everything but the hard sciences. But nobody's going to do that, so we'll have to live with the defects. It's amazing how wrongheaded [the teaching is]. There is fatal disconnectedness. You have these squirrelly people in each department who don't see the big picture.

Charlie Munger

Teaching, People, American Universities

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia

Julian Bond

Virginia, American Universities, Teach

Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.

Jane Jacobs

American Universities, University, Primaries

Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.44, Vintage

I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.

Susan Sontag

Thinking, Vacuums, American Universities

Source: ctheory.net

The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian.

Paul Achleitner

Would Be, Body, American Universities

Source: www.spiegel.de