Been Quote by Daniel Greenberg

Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were entitled to…

— Ellen Willis

This is why universities, and civil society more generally, are so important for a democracy like ours, founded on a genuine idealism that we…

— Abhijit Banerjee

Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.

— David Horowitz

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

— Stanley Fish

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

— Henry David Thoreau

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously…

— Allan Bloom

I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority…

— Richard M. Nixon

We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

— John Archibald Wheeler

“University philosophy is, as a rule, mere juggling. Its real aim is to impart to the students, in the deepest ground of their thought,…

— Schopenhauer Arthur

“the university system of becoming a “niche for radicals,” describing the public funding as “a boondoggle,” and demanding that the legislature “starve the beast.”…

— Jane Mayer

Public universities are the lifeblood of modern democracies.

— Sanjaya Baru

Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably…

— Anonymous