Conservatives Quote by Jane Mayer

“libertarians needed to mobilize youthful cadres by influencing academia in new ways. Traditional gifts to universities, he warned, didn’t guarantee enough ideological control. Instead,…

— Jane Mayer

Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as a public…

— Henry Giroux

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

I have observed private and proprietary colleges, like the University of Phoenix, and the market they serve. And I found it intriguing the way…

— Roy Romer

“Now you can do as I do, stand outside and criticize, bring pressure if you can, write and argue about it. All of this…

— Robert K. Greenleaf

“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

The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in which power…

— Noam Chomsky

I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their…

— Alain de Botton

America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers…

— Ben Shapiro

“The collective benefits of higher education will not be asserted unless the public can be engaged in defining them. A student’s future returns on…

— Ellen Condliffe Lagemann

“The universities of our time instead cultivate students so obsessed with their personal identities and campus pseudo-politics that they have much less interest in,…

— Mark Lilla

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