Polytechnics Quotes & Sayings

Needing and getting don't seem likely to match up any time soon ... What needs doing is mine to do. — Charles Frazier

Our Government understands that local, community organizations are essential in addressing social issues like economic development, poverty, education and integration in Canadian communities. The Community and College Social Innovation Fund will connect the innovative talent of researchers and students at colleges and polytechnics to meet the research needs of local community organizations to build stronger, safer, healthier communities. — Ed Holder

The radical implication of the expansion of higher education has been disguised by a myth which dubs all educated working class people as middle class. By definition working class people are not intelligent, so if you've got a degree you must be middle class. This nonsense is reinforced by the fact that acedemic traditions are laden with class assumptions and are presented in upper class styles even in the Polytechnics. — Stefan Szczelkun

A good turn at need,At first or last, shall be assur'd of meed. — Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas

I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style. — Eric Van Lustbader

I can take my wife out for a lovely evening this Friday, which is a to do. But being a good husband is not an event; it needs to be part of my nature - my character, or who I am. — Lynn G. Robbins

Science for the Citizen is ... also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first victims of the new destructive powers of science misapplied. — Lancelot Hogben

I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case. — Neil Patrick Harris

From a logical point of view, anyone
who sets out to create a Great Civilization ought to begin with people, with training cadres of experts
in order to form a native intelligentsia. But it was precisely that kind of thinking that was unacceptable. Open new universities and polytechnics, every one a hornets' nest, every student a rebel, a good-for-nothing, a freethinker? — Ryszard Kapuscinski

We die of too much life. — Herman Melville