Complex Quote by Jo Johnson

Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.

— Derek Bok

All over the world, as governments retreat from their traditional duty to foster the common good and reconceive of themselves as mere managers of…

— J. M. Coetzee

Education is a very large area, and we have our hands full. For example, SSN has to become a university; we have to keep…

— Shiv Nadar

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

— Noam Chomsky

Today, the entire country is an immense University.

— Fidel Castro

Universities have a big role to play... making it very clear to their counterparts, their networks, that the U.K. is not walking away from…

— Sam Gyimah

I think it's very important to emphasize that there are many, many different educational institutions in what we call higher education, and they educate…

— Derek Bok

Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to maintain a…

— Chris Hedges

As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.

— Steven Johnson

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

— Hal Abelson

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

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

It fulfils the purpose of Universities if they can find out ways of achieving those feats which haven't been achieved till now.

— Narendra Modi