Capable Quote by John Stuart Mill

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

— David Lodge

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

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 institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.

— Derek Bok

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

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

— Anonymous

Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals; yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for the unfolding…

— Eric Hoffer

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

— George Berkeley

“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

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most important thing an institution does is not to prepare a student for a career but for a life as a citizen.

— Frank N. Newman

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