Day Quote by Andrew Neil

I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

— Paul D. Boyer

In my day, the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the…

— Bill Bryson

“If the 1970s had been the time of radical theories, then the 1980s were the time when politics began increasingly to replace professionalism in…

— David Horowitz

College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.

— Tom Ford

Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can be made…

— Henry Giroux

My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.

— Dennis Kucinich

If we can't have an open and honest debate about the value of ideas in a university in Glasgow, or Boston, or anywhere else…

— Edward Snowden

I was in the debating society at school, I was the president of the Oxford Union, and then I became an MP in the…

— Gyles Brandreth

Students typically are at a period of their lives when they're more free than at any other time. They're out of parental control. They're…

— Noam Chomsky

“The small and seemingly benign remit of student bodies has far-reaching effects. The whole idea behind student council is to prepare future citizens to…

— Andrew Heaton

In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation…

— Marisha Pessl

Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.

— Maajid Nawaz