College Quote by Claire McCaskill

While the universities are increasingly corporatized and militarized, their governing structures are becoming more authoritarian, faculty are being devalued as public intellectuals, students are…

— Henry Giroux

Universities are not places where police can come and arrest people. Let the children have a discourse as they want to. They will learn…

— Kapil Sibal

I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars.…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.

— Derek Bok

Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.

— Noam Chomsky

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Some colleges have become institutions that no longer thrive on education, but rather on the suffering, expense, toil, and insecurity of their students, as…

— Loren Mayshark

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

Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens who can…

— Henry Giroux

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

— Eric Hoffer

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

— David Lodge