Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid…

“To restrict or legalize abortion, to allow or forbid gay marriage, a legislator would need to write and pass a law, get it signed…

— Michael Gerson

In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.

— Noam Chomsky

In the sciences particularly the large public universities must and do take an active role in fostering creativity and independence; otherwise the fields will…

— Noam Chomsky

In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students.

— Noam Chomsky

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,…

— Noam Chomsky

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

— Noam Chomsky

For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly.

— Noam Chomsky

A principle familiar to propagandists is that the doctrine to be instilled in the target audience should not be articulated: that would only expose…

— Noam Chomsky

Western intellectuals, and also Third World intellectuals, were attracted to the Bolshevik counter-revolution because Leninism is, after all, a doctrine which says that the…

— Noam Chomsky

Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and…

— Noam Chomsky

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

There are serious and legitimate concerns about academic espionage at our universities.

— Mikie Sherrill

Free speech underpins our democratic society and our universities have a long and proud history of being places where students and academics can express…

— Gavin Williamson

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

— David Lodge