Democracy Quote by Betsy DeVos

Dialogue between people of differing views is critical for fostering understanding in a democracy.

— Alex Gibney

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

— Stanley Fish

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to…

— Stanley Fish

We can respect our disagreements, but we must cherish our democracy.

— Roy Cooper

Democracy cannot survive where there is such uniformity that everyone wears exactly the same intellectual uniform or point of view. Democracy implies diversity of…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Public conversations about who we are and who we want to be are key to the vitality of our democracy, and leaders can seed…

— Abhijit Banerjee

The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable.

— Bill O'Reilly

“Democracy thrived on a clash of ideas, a tolerance of viewpoints, and robust debate.”

— Steve Berry

We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.

— Shelley Berman

Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consensus. What it does…

— William Greider

“It is particularly important to note that, in a democracy, education has never been concerned only with supplying the needs of the economy or…

— Gaby Weiner

With the corporatization and privatization of higher education, it is increasingly more difficult for colleges and universities to expand and deepen democratic public life,…

— Henry Giroux