I draw a contrast between American shared governance with "the dictatorship of ministries" wherein policy and direction for the university is ordered by bureaucrats who have never taught a class.

Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts

The faculty know what they need to develop and they need to work with an administrator with the authority do get it done. To define everything in terms of these index numbers is ridiculous.

English is not the primary language for universities in China, Korea, and Japan, but they are being evaluated on the basis of publications in English and courses taught in English.

Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. "

The task of building a great university is never simple.

The dreamer dreams, and the dreamer within the dream dreams.

A single moment of life has more miracles and worth than to live a whole life.

Desires stay unaware of man’s fragile existence authored by scarcity

Why should conversation always be so much more coherent than experience?

Honor is due to God and to persons of great excellence as a sign of attestation of excellence already existing

We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn't work that way, does it?

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.

Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear.