Aptitude Quote by Kin Hubbard

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

— Woodrow Wilson

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

A university is the place which you go in in order to go out.

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

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

“I try not to look like a university man here....My fellow-guests think of a university degree as a disgraceful preliminary to the blood-sucking life…

— Eilis Dillon

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

This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it…

— Lord Byron

“Unfortunately, the truth is that in universities the world over, the tremendous analytical power and insights of market economics are unappreciated. For whatever political…

— Henry Manne

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

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

— Jim Harrison

If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate…

— Terry Eagleton

Some boys go to college and eventually succeed in getting out. Others go to college and never succeed in getting out. The latter are…

— H. L. Mencken