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Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for…

— Michelle Obama

In the sciences particularly the large public universities must and do take an active role in fostering creativity and independence; otherwise the fields will…

— Noam Chomsky

Public universities are the lifeblood of modern democracies.

— Sanjaya Baru

We believe that colleges have a fundamental responsibility, if you're located in an urban area, to turn outward and address the needs of the…

— Michael Sorrell

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

A university is a reading and discussion club. If students knew how to use the library, they wouldn't need the rest of the buildings.…

— John Ciardi

“The collective benefits of higher education will not be asserted unless the public can be engaged in defining them. A student’s future returns on…

— Ellen Condliffe Lagemann

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations…

— Richard Hofstadter

Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as a public…

— Henry Giroux

While the universities are increasingly corporatized and militarized, their governing structures are becoming more authoritarian, faculty are being devalued as public intellectuals, students are…

— Henry Giroux

I think it's very important to emphasize that there are many, many different educational institutions in what we call higher education, and they educate…

— Derek Bok