Aim Quote by Kingman Brewster, Jr

We do our universities a disservice when we brand them as a lost cause. There are some frightfully honest students out there, and when…

— Ravi Zacharias

The purpose of the university is to make students safe for ideas - not ideas safe for students.

— Clark Kerr

The university is the place where the pursuit of truth is taught, the rules for learning how to pursue it are explained, and students…

— Joan Wallach Scott

The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.

— Mandell Creighton

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

— Hal Abelson

Violence or the threat of violence [must] never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the…

— Richard M. Nixon

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— David Lodge

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

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To my mind by far the greatest danger in scholarship...is not that the individual may fail to master the thought of a school but…

— Geoffrey Sampson

“I do regard modern universities to be biologically toxic environments for healthy students.”

— Steven Magee