Academia Quote by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Indeed, the study of universities and the great men and women who have attended them leads me to think that the best of these…

— Paul Johnson

“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

Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should…

— Barack Obama

You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for…

— L. Frank Baum

I think the skyrocketing cost of a college education has placed it in the sphere of being a luxury-priced necessity.

— Camille Perri

When students get into a great university, it's a huge aspirational lift for their village. These students become beacons of hope.

— Roshni Nadar

I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all…

— Malcolm X

College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fifty years ago, great schools like the University of California and the City University of New York - as well as many state colleges…

— Bernie Sanders

“Colleges are supposed to be the calm environment in which educated men and women determine what’s true and what’s false, and where they learn…

— Thomas M. Nichols

Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas of sexual…

— Camille Paglia