Authority 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 the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

— David Lodge

For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.

— Rodney Stark

Universities are basically socialist institutions.

— Timothy Noah

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

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

— John Stuart Mill

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that…

— George Bernard Shaw

This is why universities, and civil society more generally, are so important for a democracy like ours, founded on a genuine idealism that we…

— Abhijit Banerjee

Universities are very clarifying places of power, because everyone is focused on trying to figure out exactly what to do with their lives.

— Frederick Lenz

Public universities are the lifeblood of modern democracies.

— Sanjaya Baru

State universities in Illinois are a microcosm of our state government - broken with work rules and administrative bureaucracy.

— Bruce Rauner

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

— George Berkeley