Art Quote by Eric Hoffer

In the sciences particularly the large public universities must and do take an active role in fostering creativity and independence; otherwise the fields will…

— Noam Chomsky

University should foster imagination and creativity, enriching society in the process.

— Owen Jones

Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.

— Rita Mae Brown

Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.

— Derek Bok

In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.

— Noam Chomsky

Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of Big Science,…

— Peggy Phelan

The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

— Mae Jemison

“A university is a human invention for the transmission of knowledge and culture from generation to generation, through the training of quick minds and…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Are [the arts and the sciences] really as distinct as we seem to assume? [...] Most universities will have distinct faculties of arts and…

— Stephen Mumford

Creative universities are bedrock of every developed nation's S&T strategy.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings

— John Stuart Mill

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