Ideas Quote by Anonymous

A university is supposed to be a place where all ideas are discussed.

— Jerry Falwell, Jr

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

— Henry David Thoreau

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the…

— Terry Eagleton

The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else.

— John Leo

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

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

— George Berkeley

Women while in college ought to have the broadest possible education. This college education should be the same as men's, not only because there…

— M. Carey Thomas

Universities in general and my university in particular really has to reach out and find ways to engage more with a broader array of…

— Mark Schlissel

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

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in…

— Madeleine Albright

What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson