Appreciation Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

University should foster imagination and creativity, enriching society in the process.

— Owen Jones

Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens who can…

— Henry Giroux

A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn…

— Sydney J. Harris

It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.

— Vincent Massey

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

— Anonymous

The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the…

— Alfred North Whitehead

I think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs.

— Edsger Dijkstra

A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed…

— Ronald Reagan

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

— Hal Abelson