What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Indeed, the study of universities and the great men and women who have attended them leads me to think that the best of these schools are characterized not so much by what they teach and how they teach it but by the extent they provide opportunities and encouragement for students to teach themselves.
The best university is the university of life.
College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.
The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.