Centre Quote by Anonymous

“The main function of a university is not to grant degrees and diplomas, but to develop the university spirit and advance learning. The former…

— Anonymous

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

“A university is a human invention for the transmission of knowledge and culture from generation to generation, through the training of quick minds and…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

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

The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Most important of all: in our anxiety to "improve" the world and insure "progress" we have permitted our schools to become laboratories for social…

— Barry M. Goldwater

The thing about education - and why I'm so passionate about the position and status of the university - is that it's supposed to…

— Joan Wallach Scott

“It's for us that the University exists, for the dispossessed of the world; not for the students, not for the selfless pursuit of knowledge,…

— John Williams

Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.

— Philip Wylie

“A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society…It is…

— Cardinal Newman

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not…

— Albert J. Nock