Jim Edgar Quotes

I lived in Wales back in 1982 and 1983. I studied journalism at South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education just off Newport Road in Cardiff.

The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject.

I'm not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts education. Have an understanding of history, economics and political science - and then learn to write.

I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed.

I went to Indiana University for college for a couple of years, where I double majored in dance and journalism, and after my sophomore year there, I went to the San Francisco Ballet school for the summer, but then they offered me a scholarship to stay for the year.

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

Under the old American system the whole body of students at a university were confined to a single course, for which the majority cared little and very many cared nothing, and, as a result, widespread idleness and dissipation were inevitable. Under the new system, presenting various courses, and especially courses in various sciences, appealing to different tastes and aims, the great majority of students are interested, and consequently indolence and dissipation have steadily diminished

Higher education is now the business of delivering consumer satisfaction.

… a college near as large as Babel; sufficient to contain ten times the number of students who would ever enroll.

I once thought that there was some chance that a Harvard professor would know something about politics.

I went to school in Connecticut, at Connecticut College, and then really started to get bitten by the political bug.

I like to say that journalism is the graduate school from which you never graduate.

Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?

I was a history major at Princeton University; I took exams in war and diplomacy, and I find those things very fascinating.

My first qualification is I didn't go to Columbia Journalism School.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

Education is, in the end, about individual interactions and about learning.

An institution of higher education is a partnership among students and alumni, faculty and administrators, donors and trustees, neighborhoods and more, to build a community - and a culture.

I figured I was going to apply to one journalism school and let fate take a hand.

Well, I think that, you know, there's often two ways to become a scientist. One is to actually get your Ph.D. and then the other is to run for office.

I began college during the Iraq War and initially wanted to be a foreign correspondent.

America's best teachers are always looking for new ways to bring learning to life.

I was a chemistry major when I first went to college, which turned out to be a huge mistake. When I realized that, I decided to try an early journalism course.

I went to school at the University of Rhode Island and pursued a degree in journalism, which is a little bit ironic.

A lot of college kids are my fan following.