Asks Quote by Edsger Dijkstra

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations…

— Richard Hofstadter

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the…

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

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

— David Lodge

It is one thing for the institution to offer space for serious engagement, in thought and action, and to encourage free and independent use…

— Noam Chomsky

No university ought to be merely a national institution…The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward each other.…

— T. S. Eliot

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything…

— Richard Hofstadter

“The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre…

— Anonymous

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not…

— Albert J. Nock

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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 university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti