Agreement Quote by John Stuart Mill

A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career,…

— Stephen Fry

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

There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life. The only college where everyone is a…

— Anonymous

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

— David Lodge

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

University is sheltered from the business world and they think they should not have any connection with the businesses because maybe the business is…

— Maurice Levy

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

— Tom Stoppard

No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward each other.…

— T. S. Eliot

Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often made the…

— Tony Attwood

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

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