Time Quote by Mark Lilla

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously…

— Allan Bloom

Personally, I am uneasy about the notion of "a politically engaged university," for reasons I wrote about over 30 years ago, at the height…

— Noam Chomsky

“Don't Dare take your college as a matter of course- because like freedom and democracy, many people you'll never know anything about have broken…

— Alice Duer Miller BC 1889

“Universities, he (William Dershowitz) says, have been absorbed into the commercial ethos. Instead of being intervals of freedom, they are breeding grounds for advancement.…

— David Brooks

“It was probably inevitable that the anti-intellectualism of American life would invade college campuses, but that is no reason to surrender to it. And…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“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

In terms of activism, the Trump-era transformation of news into entertainment has had a deep effect on the way that collegiate politics are perceived.…

— Vanessa Grigoriadis

“Leftists in the universities insist that conservatives lack commitment to diversity. So diversity becomes the pretext for progressives to root out the little intellectual…

— Dinesh D'Souza

[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to create a…

— Muriel Beadle

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

— David Horowitz

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

“Life is more than a job; jobs are more than a paycheck; and a country is more than its wealth. Education is more than…

— William Deresiewicz