Choices Quote by Noam Chomsky

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

Universities in general and my university in particular really has to reach out and find ways to engage more with a broader array of…

— Mark Schlissel

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

“Unfortunately, the truth is that in universities the world over, the tremendous analytical power and insights of market economics are unappreciated. For whatever political…

— Henry Manne

Despite the evidence that we already have too many students in higher education, the hot new idea among the political class is to double…

— Charlie Sykes

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

Free movement of people makes it easier for our universities to attract the best talent.

— Jo Johnson

Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.

— James Bryant Conant

“As a rule, the extent to which politics can become the object of free scientific inquiry is a most accurate barometer by which to…

— Masao Maruyama

“The universities of our time instead cultivate students so obsessed with their personal identities and campus pseudo-politics that they have much less interest in,…

— Mark Lilla

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

On a college campus, people should be equally free to be on campus, irrespective of their skin color.

— Bret Weinstein