Sentence examples for center of learning from inspiring English sources

Peking University has been trying to enhance its mark as an internationally recognized center of learning.

"I haven't turned my back on my education," she continued, adding that she used it daily "to make my home the center of learning it should be".

His report offered a long and precise evaluation of Christian Gottlob Heyne, the classicist who had done more than any other professor to make Göttingen a world-class center of learning.

The occupation of Timbuktu, a center of learning for centuries, was the latest in a long historical list of conquests — by Arab nations, by the Songhai and Maasina empires, by France.

Most of the self-immolations have taken place in the town of Aba, known as Ngaba in Tibetan, which is home to Kirti Monastery, an important center of learning.

The site became a magnet for pilgrimages, and a major center of learning with a vast library of handwritten manuscripts gathered from imperial China to the east, and India and beyond to the west.

The American Federation of Teachers, for three decades, has represented graduate employees at respected centers of learning.

He leads Shefa, an umbrella organization for all his activities and educational institutions, including schools, seminaries and less formal centers of learning for men and women.

He argues that the lure of profits is transforming universities so that they are no longer independent, disinterested centers of learning that the public has long depended on.

It is time for my annual foray into the lower depths of higher education — that is to say, the business of Bowl Championship Series football as perpetrated on or near centers of learning.

The effort to silence Professor Xia has thrown into sharp relief the challenges facing elite colleges and universities like Peking University, caught between political controls at home and their ambitions to gain international respect as grand centers of learning.