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Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe. -- Russell Smith
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. -- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted with this squalid betrayal, one imagines he would have felt sick and oppressed. -- Terry Eagleton
Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens who can engage in debate, dialogue and bear witness to a different and critical sense of remembering, agency, ethics and collective resistance. -- Henry Giroux
In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in. -- Bill Gates
Universities are seminaries to produce Leftists -- Dennis Prager
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Jacques Barzun
Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization. -- Hal Abelson
Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals. -- Derek Bok
The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained. -- Tony Randall
Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days. -- Tony Randall
Universities charge outrageous prices instead of dipping into their own massive funding. -- Donald Trump
Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education. -- Robert Reich
Universities are set up to get people to work together by having them disagree with each other. -- Louis Menand
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. -- David Lodge
Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself. -- Edward H. Levi
Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself. -- Edward H. Levi
Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire. -- Morris Kline
Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind. -- John Ortberg
Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast. -- Peter Drucker
Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge. -- Noam Chomsky
It fulfils the purpose of Universities if they can find out ways of achieving those feats which haven't been achieved till now. -- Narendra Modi
Universities are very clarifying places of power, because everyone is focused on trying to figure out exactly what to do with their lives. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. -- Milton Friedman
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas. -- A. Bartlett Giamatti
Universities are fantastic places to gain knowledge on a subject, develop a personal network, explore your character and learn new techniques to approach problems. -- Richard Branson
Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country. -- Ric Keller
Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology. -- Evgeny Morozov
One of the biggest things that needs to change is the educational system. Universities are still teaching a system to students that destroys the biosphere. -- Ray Anderson
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Universities have come to realize that online is not a fad. The question is not whether to engage in this area but how to do it. -- Daphne Koller
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. -- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
I'm very concerned about the increasing distortion of research by the intrusion of the market. Universities are beginning to see science as a means of attracting funds. -- Philip Kitcher
Universities in general and my university in particular really has to reach out and find ways to engage more with a broader array of ideas and political thought. -- Mark Schlissel
... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered. -- Amelia Barr
Universities have failed in their function of the pursuit of academic excellence by having dumbed down classes and granting degrees to students who are just barely literate and computationally incompetent. -- Walter E. Williams
Universities simply unable to play judge, jury and executioner when they're already having trouble playing educator. Resources are limited and colleges must put their focus on their primary objective: education. -- Claire McCaskill
Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it. -- Gore Vidal
The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and humanities councils have canceled me, but never an independent bookstore. -- Bill Ayers
Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to journals which are very narrow, stands in the way of great research. -- Clayton Christensen
Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick. -- Thomas Sydenham
Universities want to recruit the students that they believe will best represent the university while in school and beyond. Students with a robust social media presence and clearly defined personal brand stand to become only more influential. -- Amy Jo Martin
I think we're vastly over-invested in universities. Universities should be relatively small and provide excellent education and research in a number of specialized areas. I think the vast majority of young people should be going through non-university, post-secondary training. -- Stephen Harper
The Church has been reproached with endeavouring to appropriate to itself all those professorships in our Universities which are connected with science: it is however certain that the larger portion of these ill-remunerated offices have been filled by clergymen. -- Charles Babbage
[On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as athletic ability, celebrity of parents, and alumni connections. It is remarkable how little agitation there is against those practices. -- Barbara Bergmann
I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often made the comment that not only are universities a 'cathedral' for worship of knowledge, they are also 'sheltered workshops' for the socially challenged. -- Tony Attwood
Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can be made visible through the medium of collective voices and social movements energized by the need for a politics and way of life counter to authoritarian capitalism. -- Henry Giroux
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs. -- Fidel Castro
We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities. -- Marcus Buckingham
Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field. -- Stephen Hawking
Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin. -- Tom Barrett
Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years. -- Mike Pence
The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard. -- Jack Welch
Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you. -- Denis Dutton
A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind. -- George Will
Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church. -- Nancy Pearcey
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany. -- George Santayana
Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone. -- David Brooks
America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou. -- Ben Shapiro
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Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime? -- Peter Kropotkin
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. -- H. G. Wells
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out. -- Charlie Pierce
The Small Business 'common app' would function much like the one that students complete to apply to multiple colleges and universities simultaneously. It would ensure that small businesses across the country can concentrate on growing and creating jobs - not wasting time, filling out mountains of repetitive paperwork. -- Kay Hagan
A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities. -- Anant Agarwal
If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities. -- Noam Chomsky
Now that we've discovered how to actually develop policies and projects holistically, if we can get the barriers out of the way and release the creativity that's in our universities, our farming organizations, amongst our farmers and land managers, we'll be astounded. As I'd like to express it, the human spirit will fly. -- Allan Savory
I don't believe in colleges and universities. -- Ray Bradbury
Prisons are the universities of the opposition. -- Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems. -- Arthur Erickson
[On U.S. universities:] The bland leading the bland. -- Camille Paglia
The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids. -- Bill Gates
Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state. -- Peter Kropotkin
Our universities and museums are respected around the country. -- Jane Byrne
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A collection of books is the best of all universities. -- Thomas Carlyle
We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities. -- William P. Leahy
There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together. -- Thomas Hobbes
In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students. -- Noam Chomsky
All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students. -- Constance Baker Motley
As universities have turned into businesses, so students have turned into consumers. -- Kenan Malik
Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities. -- Jane Jacobs
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. -- Orson Welles
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties. -- Edward Albee
Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too. -- Jim Harrison
And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education. -- Malcolm X
I have a plan to make tuition debt-free for public colleges and universities. -- Hillary Clinton
For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities. -- Rodney Stark
Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities. -- Alice Walker
My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities -- Dennis Prager
Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South. -- Carter G. Woodson
Our universities today are better equipped than ever, and the wars keep getting worse. -- Jacque Fresco
If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities. -- Paul A. Baran
Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people. -- John Maeda
I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
Typically cult groups target universities and colleges. Most likely those schools that maintain campus housing. -- Rick Ross
I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent. -- Bill Ayers
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. -- Mark Strand
Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse. -- H. L. Mencken
More than 13,000 Malaysians travel to the U.K. to study in British universities every year. -- Najib Razak
The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief. -- Mandell Creighton
The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds. -- Dennis Prager
The highest percentage of England's top jobs are filled by graduates from about two different universities. -- Keira Knightley
Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality. -- Dick Armey
Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities. -- Ludwig von Mises
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities. -- Milton Friedman
Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there. -- Dean Koontz
I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities. -- Thomas Piketty
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom. -- Alan Dershowitz
Certificates from top US universities adorned the walls like tiger head in a hunterâ??s home. -- Chetan Bhagat
I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years. -- John Pople
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached." -- Judith Martin
We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors. -- John Archibald Wheeler
Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches. -- Karin Slaughter
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached. -- Judith Martin
Ruling elite have think tanks, they have research institutes, they've invaded universities, they've monopolized the cultural apparatuses. -- Henry Giroux
The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry. -- George Berkeley

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