Adults Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe.

— Russell Smith

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

— David Lodge

Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.

— Tom Stoppard

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

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

— Woodrow Wilson

The idea that the majority of students attend a university for an education independent of the degree and grades is a hypocrisy everyone is…

— Robert M. Pirsig

A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn…

— Sydney J. Harris

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

I've known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a…

— Jordan Peterson

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

— John Stuart Mill

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

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

— John Archibald Wheeler