Universities Quotes · Page 3

Let's turn the universities that walk the walk on equity into household names.

— Miguel Cardona

Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.

— John Maeda

Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.

— Anonymous

For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.

— Rodney Stark

We try to preach innovation. We provide resources; we invite speakers in from universities to talk about new ideas.

— Irwin M. Jacobs

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

— H. L. Mencken

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

— Noam Chomsky

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

I think universities are trying to figure out how we could use what we know about learning to change our education system,…

— Alison Gopnik

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

— Camille Paglia

All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman,…

— Maya Angelou

Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed…

— William Kunstler

Most of India is rural; there is a huge population in India not being tapped for their excellence. They have no access…

— Roshni Nadar

Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to…

— Anonymous

I think we're vastly over-invested in universities. Universities should be relatively small and provide excellent education and research in a number of…

— Stephen Harper

I never really felt like my age stopped people from wanting to work with me. I was speaking at conferences and lecturing…

— Matt Mickiewicz

Universities are fantastic places to gain knowledge on a subject, develop a personal network, explore your character and learn new techniques to…

— Richard Branson

Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often…

— Tony Attwood

By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in…

— Ben Shapiro

“A significant percentage of the millions of students who will graduate schools today are desperately searching for the one thing. But rather…

— Phil Cooke

“...Come on let’s see the degree.” Katherine unrolled her scroll displaying a long declaration in Latin affixed with a red seal proclaiming…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

A man who reads a book for no particular profit becomes, while he reads, a gentleman, a man of leisure, a dandy…

— John Updike

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

— Anonymous

“Tenure was originally invented to protect radical professors, those who challenged the accepted order. But we don't have such people anymore at…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The way universities operate is the decision about what students need for the degree are... is the decision made by the faculty.

— Louis Menand

And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.

— Malcolm X

The fact that I spent my life in universities in a manner that I no longer have close identification with bricklayers is…

— Stanley Hauerwas

I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.

— John Pople

The University of Maryland ranks among the world's top universities for quantum research.

— Wes Moore

Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.

— Tony Randall

Universities which deliver high quality research and innovation will be an essential part of that future.

— Chris Grayling

Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education.

— Robert Reich

I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.

— Freeman A. Hrabowski III

“Do not dwell on the past. Focus on the precious moments and gracious future.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.

— Noam Chomsky

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

— Robert M. Hutchins

Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind.

— John Ortberg

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings

— John Stuart Mill

The universities will ask for money back so they can put their name on the side of a building without fully educating…

— Eddie George

Western societies in general and universities in particular have not always been immune from institutional sexism. This is incontestable.

— Gad Saad