Alive Quote by Muriel Beadle

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not…

— Albert J. Nock

The era of appeasement must come to an end. The political and social demands that dissidents are making of the universities do not flow…

— Spiro T. Agnew

The professors - working steadily and systematically - have destroyed the university as a center of learning and have desolated higher education, which no…

— Charlie Sykes

It is equally unreasonable to run a university as a "participatory democracy," the approach to governance that once existed in Europe. That approach in…

— Henry Rosovsky

It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting…

— Vincent Massey

“The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions--even when that is exactly…

— Timothy Snyder

Even as I've become more reticent about the political possibilities of the academic space, I want to note that students have played significant roles…

— Joshua Clover

If the government were to invest that money in higher education and public services, these would be far better investments. But administrators and academics…

— Henry Giroux

Many university presidents assume the language and behavior of CEOs and in doing so they are completely reneging on the public mission of the…

— Henry Giroux

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

— Hal Abelson

I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their…

— Alain de Botton

They wanted a great university without building a great university. They knew a lot about football, but not a lot about academia.

— Brad Carter