E Learning University Quotes

#1. The most important skill for a new recruit from university will be the ability to learn.

Robin Hoyle

#2. A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

Robert M. Hutchins

#3. A graduate student who is still learning courses is not really taking a maximum advantage of a research university's offerings. He should already be finished with course-taking, as he would then be able to shape his own taste about what is a good subject for research work in the graduate school.

Chen-Ning Yang

#4. Nothing worth knowing can ever be taught in a classroom.

Chip Kidd

#5. There is nothing better than expressions in words.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.

Alfred North Whitehead

#7. The more we read, the better we are informed.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. I don't argue with fools; I educate.

Shannon L. Alder

#9. I wanted to go to university and experience something that I felt like I'd missed. I wanted to be around bright, intelligent young people who were learning about themselves.

Yasmin Paige

#10. I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale as a fellow. I spent two years there. After that, George Gale made me literary editor of 'The Spectator.'

Peter Ackroyd

#11. A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Benjamin Disraeli

#12. If you want to be a graduate student, you have to fall in love with reading.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.

Harvey Lloyd

#14. This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

Thomas Jefferson

#15. Reading is learning: Secure Future and earnings

Syed Sohail Ahmed

#16. So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.

E. O. Wilson

#17. [Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science - where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not stretched or cut exactly to fit Revealed Religion.

Andrew Dickson White

#18. People would rather spend $50 learning useful career skills online than go to university for a few years, leaving with tens of thousands of dollars in debt and no job.

Rob Cubbon

#19. In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available.

Bill Bryson

#20. The best education we can ever receive is from the University of Adversity. It's the only institute of learning that rewards us when we fail.

Jason Versey

#21. You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.

Finley Peter Dunne

#22. These facts are clear: Trump University was an unlicensed enterprise promising students that they would become wealthy by learning Trump's real estate tips and strategies, taught by his handpicked instructors.

Eric Schneiderman

#23. What was it about scholarship and learning, he wondered, that seemed to wither the hearts of University men, leaving them incapable of loving anything as imperfect and fallible as an actual human being?

Ellen Kushner

#24. The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was his job as instructor ... to tell them what was good or bad. The whole idea of individual creativity and expression in the classroom was really basically opposed to the whole idea of the University.

Robert M. Pirsig

#25. There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life ... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#26. You have no idea how many men are spoiled by what is called education. For the most part, colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. If Shakespeare had graduated at Oxford, he might have been a quibbling attorney, or a hypocritical parson.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#27. The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.

John Goddard

#28. They say education has no end. If you still disagree with this, here is a better way to take it in; "Education has an end that never comes".

Israelmore Ayivor

#29. A significant contribution to science pedagogy and to the scholarship of teaching and learning ... [W]ill be of interest to researchers in the area of science education and to college and university faculty members who seek to improve their teaching.

David W. Oxtoby

#30. What we have before us then, is three distinct purposes for a university: the commercial purpose (starting a career), Stephen Pinker's cognitive purpose (acquiring information and learning how to think) and (William) Deresiewicz's moral purpose (building an integrated self).

David Brooks

#31. There are so many books to read. What a paradise!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#32. In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

Doris Lessing

#33. University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one's soul.

C. JoyBell C.

#34. I see the beatitudes of books displayed on a bookshelf.

Lailah Gifty Akita