Decision Quote by Louis Menand

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 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

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

We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

— John Archibald Wheeler

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

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

“The main function of a university is not to grant degrees and diplomas, but to develop the university spirit and advance learning. The former…

— Anonymous

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

— John Ciardi

Universities are very clarifying places of power, because everyone is focused on trying to figure out exactly what to do with their lives.

— Frederick Lenz

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

— Anonymous

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

— David Lodge

Going to university is, and should be, so much more than a mechanical process of grinding out a degree qualification for a pre-determined career…

— John McDonnell

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

— Anonymous