university

What I want to get out of my college course is some knowledge of the best way of living life and doing the most and best with it. I want to learn to understand and help other people and myself.

Joyfully we undertake our daily work.

Fortunately, our colleges and universities are fully cognizant of the problems I have been delineating and take concerted action to address them. Curricula are designed to give coherence to the educational experience and to challenge students to develop a strong degree of moral awareness. Professors, deeply involved with the enterprise of undergraduate instruction, are committed to their students' intellectual growth and insist on maintaining the highest standards of academic rigor. Career services keep themselves informed about the broad range of postgraduate options and make a point of steering students away from conventional choices. A policy of noncooperation with U.S. News has taken hold, depriving the magazine of the data requisite to calculate its rankings. Rather than squandering money on luxurious amenities and exorbitant administrative salaries, schools have rededicated themselves to their core missions of teaching and the liberal arts. I'm kidding, of course.

In my illustrious career as a university student, I turned in over 100 papers so that one day, in the end, I got 1 paper in return.

His name was Ed. His nickname was Scrambled Ed. On leaving school he had taken a year out to decide what he wanted to study at University. The year passed and he still hadn't decided but went to University anyway. 'Academic' is defined as 'of, or relating to, institutionalized education and scholarship'. The same word, at the same time, also means 'having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed, unengaging or theoretical'. The latter definition seemed the most appropriate for Ed's university career which was a mash up of drinking, diving, surfing, kayaking and having his heart-broken. All washed down with a few pints. After three years of that he was awarded a second class joint honours degree which he put in the recycling bin and went in search of something that would make him feel better.

Molly. I have an opportunity for you.___n opportunity?_ I repeated, without enthusiasm. Oh, good. Next comes the part where he tells me to be a __eam player_ and then dumps some tedious task on me.__t__ a chance for you to show that you can be a team player,_ Bill Vogel said.

I couldn__ bring myself to call him either __ill,_ which would signal friendly familiarity, or __octor Vogel,_ which would imply respect.

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

By the Middle Ages_ the introduction of the Trivium was well-known: S_DI, an educated black from Tombouctou, author of the well-known work entitled, __arikh es-Soudan_ cites amongst the subjects that he mastered, logic, dialection, grammar, rhetoric, not to mention law and other disciplines...the long lists of subjects studied and the lettered African intellectuals who taught them at the University of Tombouctou_

Education is political.

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library ... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.

So on a scale of one to Adele, how bad was this breakup?

When I worked in astronomy, I routinely observed young college and university students working with liquid nitrogen and breathing nitrogen gas as they discharged it into the indoor environment at high altitude.

University, he said quietly. It sounded like a dream; it tasted like damnation.

Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age.

He has little hope that university, when he gets there next year, will be any different. Like right now, all these pupils taking notes as if their life depended on it. All for what? he wants to shout. To get into the top university, so that you can somehow convince yourself you are better than the great unwashed? So that your parents can convince themselves that they are better parents than the great unwashed? So that Mum and Dad__ fourteen-hour days at the office, paying for a fucking private education you never asked for, wasn__ just a pathetic waste of a life?

The very least thing one should learn at the university is how to reach new knowledge.