Coming out Quote by Richard Rodriguez

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

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

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

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

In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.

— Noam Chomsky

Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.

— Derek Bok

Every campus, of course, also has its rabble of young "liberals," who are forever making a din as they "demonstrate" for "world peash," "snivel…

— Revilo P. Oliver

What [American universities] need, and would much benefit from, is more Marxists, radicals, leftists - all terms conventionally applied to those who fight against…

— Grover Furr

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

As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.

— Steven Johnson

If you think about the amount of critical thinking that has come into the field of economics, two universities have dominated the landscape in…

— Kenneth C. Griffin