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University Quotes - Page 5

What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.

Speech at the Oxford Union, 2 December 1920, in Beverley Nichols '25' (1926) ch. 7

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.3, Book Tree

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other.

Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

Lincoln Steffens (1931). “The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens”, p.124, Heyday

Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

" Get Rich U: There are no walls between Stanford and Silicon Valley. Should there be?" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. April 30, 2012.

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.116, Cambridge University Press