Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. Votes: 3
I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook. Votes: 3
History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him. Votes: 3
As educators, we are only as effective as what we know. If we have no working knowledge of what students studied in previous years, how can we build on their learning? If we have no insight into the curriculum in later grades, how can we prepare learners for future classes? Votes: 3
For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life. Votes: 3
Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers. Votes: 0
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. Votes: 6 Marcus Garvey
I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star. Votes: 6 Carl Sagan