[On U.S. universities:] The bland leading the bland.

Television is the bland leading the bland.

— Murray Schumach

I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps.

— Camille Paglia

American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather…

— Camille Paglia

If colleges and universities are really concerned about women's rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow young women…

— Camille Paglia

Even within traditional universities there has always been debate about whether it wouldn't be better to focus on only one course at a time.

— Philip Greenspun

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

— Anonymous

Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do give us useful things as…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.

— Jane Jacobs

Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition…

— Evgeny Morozov

Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.

— Dean Koontz

As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

— Derek Bok

I was horrified to visit our universities and find that at the Punjab Agriculture University or at the Animal and Husbandry University, we don't…

— Amarinder Singh

Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time... The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism,…

— Camille Paglia

No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic…

— Olaf Stapledon

Going to a site with more users seems obviously better to me, but at the same time, having a bland, middle of the road…

— Christian Rudder