Attitude Quote by Noam Chomsky

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

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

“What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role of academia…

— Terry Eagleton

Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.

— Noam Chomsky

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk…

— Kingman Brewster, Jr

I think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

— Alan Dershowitz

Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can be made…

— Henry Giroux

“In some quarters, and particularly among those who comment on these matters in in political circles or in the media or the blogosphere or…

— Stefan Collini

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Universities are basically socialist institutions.

— Timothy Noah

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson