I thought it'd be cool to start my own university, in a way.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their way. It's like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for.
Universities are like a utopia in a way, because you're mentally stimulated, you're challenged, and you have a lot of young, creative minds wanting to do new things, different things. Better things.
It's nice to work with your own alma mater.
Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.
In Britain, the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it was quite unthinkable. I took a variety of jobs to pay for tuition - from ice-cream salesman to night-club bouncer. Whatever earned the most money in the least time.
Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.
I was the first person to go to university from my family.
I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.
I have spent my entire adult life trying to make Liberty University the world-class Christian university that was envisioned at its founding.