The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other.
It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England; and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country.
Having little money to spend was a valuable learning experience. My schooling also shaped my work ethic because while other children were listening to the Goons, I was studying, which enabled me to go to Cambridge University.
You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.
My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph. D. in 1938.
I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.
Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.
I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.
The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.
. . . certain people, such as shamans, witch doctors, practitioners of Eastern religions, New Age gurus or professors of the occult on university faculties are examples of the kind of people who may have much more extensive knowledge of the spirit world than most Christians have.
Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
I suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces.
I started a PhD in English at the University of Chicago because I loved poetry-which I now realize is like saying I studied vivisection because I loved dogs.
When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.
I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.
I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.
Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.
I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels.
In the class that I teach at one University, I stress that my one-word definition of politics is money. You can't name a subject matter that money doesn't touch.
If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.