Ability Quote by Anton Chekhov

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.

— Eric Hoffer

There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life. The only college where everyone is a…

— Anonymous

It fulfils the purpose of Universities if they can find out ways of achieving those feats which haven't been achieved till now.

— Narendra Modi

No institution will be better than the institutor.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Elite colleges like Stanford are extremely inaccessible. They're failing in their mission to provide access.

— Sebastian Thrun

Every institution is perfectly capable of forgetting what it has learned in three years.

— Ron Williams

Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.

— Kent McCord

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

— David Lodge

I think the universities as we know them will be dead in a future years. I'd like to see them replaced by something better,…

— David Gelernter

The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.

— Howard Zinn

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

— Lincoln Steffens

So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.

— Gordon Gee