Criticism Quote by Robert M. Hutchins

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

— David Lodge

Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few…

— Randall Jarrell

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

— John Stuart Mill

But, before we in America critique East Asia, we must also recognize that we are - unfortunately - taking on some of the same…

— Henry Rosovsky

Universities are not like supermarkets: their job is to serve the country, not just the customers who happen to walk through their doors.

— David Lammy

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

— Noam Chomsky

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

— Edward Albee

The idea that the majority of students attend a university for an education independent of the degree and grades is a hypocrisy everyone is…

— Robert M. Pirsig

University presidents should be loud and forceful in defending the university as a social good, essential to the democratic culture and economy of a…

— Henry Giroux

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

— Anonymous

The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Unfortunately, the truth is that in universities the world over, the tremendous analytical power and insights of market economics are unappreciated. For whatever political…

— Henry Manne