Disagree Quote by Louis Menand

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

— John Stuart Mill

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

It is one thing for the institution to offer space for serious engagement, in thought and action, and to encourage free and independent use…

— Noam Chomsky

Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.

— Noam Chomsky

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

— Robert M. Hutchins

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

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

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

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities . . . than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research…

— Hannah Arendt

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

— David Lodge

I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively…

— Anonymous

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Universities have a big role to play... making it very clear to their counterparts, their networks, that the U.K. is not walking away from…

— Sam Gyimah