Adult Quote by Russell Smith

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

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

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means…

— J. G. Ballard

Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens who can…

— Henry Giroux

We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time,…

— John Taylor Gatto

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

— Woodrow Wilson

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

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

All over the world, as governments retreat from their traditional duty to foster the common good and reconceive of themselves as mere managers of…

— J. M. Coetzee

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

— Bill Gates

Universities are full of Knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in, the seniors take none away, and the knowledge there accumulates

— Abbott Lawrence Lowell

Maturity… Is The Ability To Do Something Even Though Your Parents Have Recommended It.

— Paul Watzlawick