Ideas Quote by Mark Schlissel

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

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

A university is supposed to be a place where all ideas are discussed.

— Jerry Falwell, Jr

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

I don't think that you want to see universities in any way trying to have any kind of quota system about political views, or…

— Louis Menand

Universities are seminaries to produce Leftists

— Dennis Prager

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

Individuals in a university - students, faculty, staff - can choose to become politically engaged, and a free university should foster a climate in…

— Noam Chomsky

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

What [American universities] need, and would much benefit from, is more Marxists, radicals, leftists - all terms conventionally applied to those who fight against…

— Grover Furr

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

— Woodrow Wilson