Elie Wiesel Quotes

Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.

On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum.

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.

I've gotten e-mails asking, 'Are you taking students?' Well, come visit and I'll be happy to talk to you. But I'm not a degree-granting institution.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

[Jews have] a particular need, evidently greater than that of any others, to pay more careful attention to education.

Governor Romney, how many fewer college degrees would it take to make America more competitive?

Peres Fobes, Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy, … proposes to exhibit a COURSE of LECTURES upon NATURAL PHILOSOPHY and ASTRONOMY ... illustrated by a Variety of curious and entertaining Experiments. ... The Course will consist of Twelve Lectures, two or three to be exhibited per Week, at the Philosophy-Room in College. The Price Twelve Shillings for the whole course, or One Shilling and Three Pence for a single Lecture

In the universities, we teach you what we decide you need to know. And the employers find out when they hire people that students didn't learn what we needed them to learn. Online learning offerings, like the University of Phoenix, have relationships with employers and teach what you need to know.

I majored in English with a specialization in creative writing along with Asian American Studies.

I was an American Studies student at Berkeley as an undergraduate, and pretty much as a graduate student, too.

One of the great things going on in Chicago is the educational facilities here. And the largest film school in the world is right here in Chicago: Columbia College.

I went to the University of Miami.

I was going to go back to college and become a math teacher.

I immigrated to the United States in 2001 for college.

We have to get back to universities being more focused on education and more connected on what they educate students for to the jobs that actually exist.

I did go to university and I did teach school for a year.

If I ever go back to college, I'd study art education.

To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.

Historically black colleges and universities are incredibly important institutions woven into the fabric of America. They have played such an important role in achieving progress for African Americans and in our nation's march for justice.