Clear Quote by David Gelernter

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

— H. L. Mencken

Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous.

— Swami Vivekananda

Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.

— Peter Drucker

We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.

— Marcus Buckingham

Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.

— Kent McCord

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

— Hal Abelson

The professors - working steadily and systematically - have destroyed the university as a center of learning and have desolated higher education, which no…

— Charlie Sykes

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

I think we're vastly over-invested in universities. Universities should be relatively small and provide excellent education and research in a number of specialized areas.…

— Stephen Harper

I think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes…

— H. G. Wells

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

— A. N. Wilson