Aim Quote by Richard Hofstadter

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

A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn…

— Sydney J. Harris

A university is a reading and discussion club. If students knew how to use the library, they wouldn't need the rest of the buildings.…

— John Ciardi

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

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

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

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

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

It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs.

— Edsger Dijkstra

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

Show me a university which is a hotbed of thin-skinned offence-taking, where every unacceptable idea is policed and every person who happens to hold…

— Howard Jacobson

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