Employment Quote by Milton Friedman

The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing…

— Charlie Pierce

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals; yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for the unfolding…

— Eric Hoffer

Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often made the…

— Tony Attwood

It should be easier for athletes to be students.

— Cris Collinsworth

The purpose of the university is to make students safe for ideas - not ideas safe for students.

— Clark Kerr

We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity ……

— Anonymous

Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.

— Derek Bok

University, as institutions, pre-date the information economy by many centuries and are not for-profit cultural entities, whose reason of existence (purportedly) is to discover…

— Bruce Sterling

“Football, fraternities, and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn’t be in the university.”

— Robert M. Hutchins

Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of…

— James E. Rogers