Education Quote by Anonymous

“The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre…

— Anonymous

“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

No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing knowledge for…

— Robert Muller

Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without…

— Dale Archer

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

— Lincoln Steffens

Unity of minds, natural love and co-operation, are the qualities we have to develop today. Education is not for securing university degrees.

— Sai Baba

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

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

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

University is a valuable and important path for many, but young people can also consider further education or an apprenticeship.

— Gavin Williamson

Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or…

— Mortimer Adler

“It is unlikely that your life’s work will be found by studying at a university, college, or other educational institute. Knowledge is only a…

— Michael Hetherington