American Universities Quotes

• I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world

  Clifford Geertz

  Thinking, World, Being The Best

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• 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, Study

  Fuente: ctheory.net

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• We are in the presence of a recruiting drive systematically and deliberately undertaken by American business, by American universities, and to a lesser extent, American government, often initiated by talent scouts specially sent over here to buy British brains and preempt them for service of the U.S.A. ... I look forward earnestly to the day when some reform of the American system of school education enables them to produce their own scientists so that, in an aimiable free trade of talent, there may be adequate interchange between our country and theirs, and not a one-way traffic.

  Lord Hailsham

  Country, School, Science

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

  Thomas Piketty

  Way, University, Organized

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

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• Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of a détente with the Soviet Union, a new feeling for peace, a seeking out of a new ally with the Soviet Union - the end of the Cold War, as Kennedy called it in his American University speech.

  Oliver Stone

  War, Years, Feelings

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• 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, Asian

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Blue, Literature, Today

  Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Sinclair Lewis (1931). “Why Sinclair Lewis got the Nobel prize”

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• Hay muchas cosas mal [en las universidades estadounidenses]. Yo eliminaría 3/4 partes del profesorado, todo menos las ciencias duras. Pero nadie va a hacerlo, así que tendremos que vivir con los defectos. Es increíble lo equivocada que está [la enseñanza]. Hay una desconexión fatal. Hay gente rara en cada departamento que no tiene una visión de conjunto.

  Charlie Munger

  Teaching, People, Bigs

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• I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.

  Ben Stein

  Teacher, Law, California

  Entrevista en The Onion, www.avclub.com. 27 de enero de 1999.

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• Antes me preguntaba por qué las universidades estadounidenses se financian mediante dotaciones. Ahora lo sé: En los primeros tiempos de Estados Unidos, el Estado era pobre y cuando los ciudadanos querían crear algo, necesitaban recaudar dinero ellos mismos. Históricamente, esto era diferente en Europa. Solía haber un Estado fuerte, un monarca o un rey. Él proporcionaba el dinero.

  Zhang Xin

  Fuerte, Reyes, Europa

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• Si no tienes que pagar por todo lo que proporcionas, ¿por qué demonios vas a reducir su coste, si va a estar cubierto? Eso es lo que le ha pasado al sistema sanitario. Por qué recortar costes cuando alguien va a subvencionar lo que cobres. Pero hay otra razón por la que las matrículas nunca van a bajar en las principales universidades americanas, y es porque son el campo de entrenamiento del liberalismo y el radicalismo americanos. Y tienen que hacer que los puestos de trabajo allí sean atractivos para los profesores y los maestros que van a adoctrinar a estos jóvenes cráneos llenos de papilla.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Profesor, Empleo, Recorte

  "El Papa: Trump no es cristiano". "El programa de Rush Limbaugh", www.rushlimbaugh.com. 18 de febrero de 2016.

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• No es de extrañar que al mismo tiempo que las universidades estadounidenses se han comprometido seriamente con la diversidad, se hayan convertido en cárceles del pensamiento. No estamos hablando de diversidad en ningún sentido real. Estamos hablando de versiones marrones, negras y blancas de la misma ideología política.

  Richard Rodríguez

  Real, Compromiso, Blanco

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Tras el colapso soviético, el marxismo es una reliquia, un patético anacronismo reducido a sus últimos reductos: Corea del Norte, Cuba y los departamentos de inglés de las universidades estadounidenses más caras.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Corea, Cuba, Dura

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• American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Class, President, Nervous

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 2, p. 60, 1977.

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• Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, University, Department

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). "Domingo de Ramos: An Autobiographical Collage", Dell Books

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• But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk together. In too many of our cities today, the peace is not secure because freedom is incomplete." (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, June, Cities

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.464, Best Books on

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• ¿Y no es la paz, en último análisis, básicamente una cuestión de derechos humanos -- el derecho a vivir nuestras vidas sin miedo a la devastación -- el derecho a respirar aire tal como la naturaleza nos lo proporcionó -- el derecho de las generaciones futuras a una existencia saludable?" (John F. Kennedy, 10 de junio de 1963, discurso en la American University)

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, June, Rights

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.464, Best Books on

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• I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia

  Julian Bond

  Virginia, Teach, University

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• What [American universities] need, and would much benefit from, is more Marxists, radicals, leftists - all terms conventionally applied to those who fight against exploitation, racism, sexism, and capitalism. We can never have too many of these, just as we can never have too few 'conservatives'.

  Grover Furr

  Fighting, Racism, Needs

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• American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.

  Camille Paglia

  Reality, College, Style

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.120, Vintage

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• American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

  Edward Albee

  Inspirational, Education, Half

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sabes que quedan muy pocos marxistas en el mundo... están todos en las universidades americanas.

  Milton Friedman

  América, Mundo, Económico

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

  Jane Jacobs

  University, Primaries

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

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• It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.

  Johan Huizinga

  Goal, Brain, Republic

  Johan Huizinga (1972). “America; a Dutch historian's vision, from afar and near”

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• I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

  Philip Larkin

  Writing, Sleep, Organization

  "Philip Larkin's Everyday Poetry" by Henry Allen, www.washingtonpost.com. June 3, 1989.

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