Higher Learning Quotes

• Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

  B. B. King

  Brother, School, College

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• Hemos transformado nuestras universidades, que han dejado de ser lugares de enseñanza superior para convertirse en lugares de formación técnica de hombres y mujeres jóvenes poco preparados que necesitan un título para conseguir un trabajo en una sociedad obsesionada con la universidad.

  Eugene Genovese

  Trabajo, Locura, Universidad

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• With respect to teaching, I couldn't make sense of mainstream economics when I had to teach it to college students. At the same time, I could see at the school that there was a whole lot of hypocrisy. Not much real respect for the "higher learning."

  Michael Yates

  Real, Teaching, School

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• Puedes echar un vistazo a la matrícula en las principales instituciones de enseñanza superior. Es 65% mujeres, 35% hombres. Una de las razones es que los hombres ya no quieren ir allí. Pero esto es una manifestación... Recuerde que nuestro viejo amigo James Brown se dirigió a los hombres, dijo que es hora de ponerse en forma o irse. Dijo que tenemos que parar este asunto de burlarnos de los hombres que "lanzan como chicas".

  Rush Limbaugh

  Girl, Fun, Men

  Fuente: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It is equally unreasonable to run a university as a "participatory democracy," the approach to governance that once existed in Europe. That approach in European institutions of higher learning was appealing to professors because it was democratic. But those institutions also suffered because they lacked an executive decision-making process; making changes became virtually impossible.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Running, Europe, Decision

  Fuente: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.

  James Cook

  Government, Media, Merit

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• Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Teaching, School, Doe

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• College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Football, College, America

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• Most institutions of higher learning in the West were founded by and for religious denominations. The supposed alienation of education and faith is a recent phenomenon. At the same time, neither education nor the lack of it predisposes one to faith.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Religious, West, Denominations

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

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• It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration. ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and of higher learning, he is met with similar autonomies of development. ... The scientist, the technician, the scholar, who have left the One for the Many are puffed up with vanity over their ability to describe precisely some minute portion of the world. Men so obsessed with fragments can no more be reasoned with than other psychotics.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Vanity, Personality

  "Ideas have Consequences". Book by Richard M. Weaver, p. 62, 1948.

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• Tenemos que asegurarnos de que la universidad sea accesible y asequible. Hace dos años, pedí aquí a nuestras instituciones de enseñanza superior que desarrollaran planes de titulaciones que no costaran más de 10.000 dólares. Hubo muchos detractores que insistieron en que no era posible. Sin embargo, ese llamamiento inspiró a los educadores de las facultades y universidades de todo el Estado a ponerse manos a la obra. Hoy, me enorgullece decirles que trece universidades de Texas han anunciado planes para la obtención de un título de 10.000 dólares.

  Rick Perry

  Educación, Universidad, Texas

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• Es un error pensar que estos hombres eran soñadores visionarios que jugaban en Filadelfia con concepciones abstractas de la teoría política, sacando de la nada un esquema de gobierno como un conejo de la chistera. Es cierto que muchos de ellos habían leído y estudiado lo suficiente sobre la ciencia política como para avergonzar al estadista medio de hoy en día. Pero la ciencia política era para ellos un tema de debate extremadamente práctico, que trataba de la gestión de un gobierno, y no, como hoy, una rama de la enseñanza superior reservada a los estudiantes de posgrado.

  Fred Rodell

  Correr, Error, Hombres

  Fred Rodell (1986). "55 Men, Story of Constitution", p.22, Stackpole Books

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• Most people, I suspect, still have in their minds an image of America as the great land of college education, unique in the extent to which higher learning is offered to the population at large. That image used to correspond to reality. But these days young Americans are considerably less likely than young people in many other countries to graduate from college. In fact, we have a college graduation rate that's slightly below the average across all advanced economies.

  Paul Krugman

  Country, Unique, Reality

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• Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar.

  William Julius Wilson

  Two, White, Giving

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• Desde su fundación en 1854, Penn State ha demostrado ser una institución líder de enseñanza superior.

  Tim Holden

  Penn State, States, Institutions

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• We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.

  Abraham Flexner

  Sex, America, Race

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• Judge: And what is your occupation in general? Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put you in the ranks of poet? Brodsky: No one. And who put me in the ranks of humanity? Judge: Did you study it?...How to be a poet? Did you attempt to finish an insitute of higher learning...where they prepare...teach Brodsky: I did not think that it is given to one by education. Judge: By what then? Brodsky: I think that it is from God.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Thinking, Judging, Humanity

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• Durante la época de la segregación, no había ningún lugar de enseñanza superior para los afroamericanos. Simplemente no eran bienvenidos en muchas de las escuelas tradicionales. Y de esta política retrógrada surgió la red de colegios y universidades históricas para negros.

  Michael N. Castle

  School, College, African American

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