Church Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.

— Mandell Creighton

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

— David Lodge

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

— George Berkeley

“It's for us that the University exists, for the dispossessed of the world; not for the students, not for the selfless pursuit of knowledge,…

— John Williams

The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be processed in…

— Mario Savio

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

“we find the university dominated by theology of another kind – a godless theology, to be sure, but one no less insistent upon unquestioning…

— Roger Scruton

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

In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.

— John Shelby Spong