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Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen

Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates. – A. Lawrence Lowell

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I didnt get my degree at NYU I got it later, they gave me an honourary one. – Jim Jarmusch

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If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research. – Alan Dundes

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Americans in particular are myopic. Theyre not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. Thats what I did. I went to Indonesia. – Julie Taymor

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My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could. – George Weinberg

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