Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

...universities were not meant entirely, or even chiefly, as stepping-stones to an examination, but that there is something else which universities can teach and…

— Anonymous

University, as institutions, pre-date the information economy by many centuries and are not for-profit cultural entities, whose reason of existence (purportedly) is to discover…

— Bruce Sterling

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

— Angela Ruggiero

I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch…

— Randy Savage

“I know you're just trying to be kind. But the world isn't always kind. So sometimes you have to know what you're up against,…

— Mackenzie Herbert

You've got to have new stars and you need people to pass the torch to build those stars.

— Ted DiBiase Sr

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

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

— David Lodge