Attitude Quote by Robert M. Pirsig

I've known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a…

— Jordan Peterson

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

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people…

— Robert Genn

Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without…

— Dale Archer

We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

— John Archibald Wheeler

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

— David Lodge

One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of…

— Jane Jacobs

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

— Lincoln Steffens

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

— John Stuart Mill

Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas of worthwhile…

— William Watson Purkey

“Some colleges have become institutions that no longer thrive on education, but rather on the suffering, expense, toil, and insecurity of their students, as…

— Loren Mayshark

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When…

— David Brooks