Credit Quote by Sal Khan

A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed…

— Ronald Reagan

...universities were not meant entirely, or even chiefly, as stepping-stones to an examination, but that there is something else which universities can teach and…

— Anonymous

There are many reasons that universities in East Asia have not reached the positions that they had hoped for. After all, we must remember…

— Henry Rosovsky

We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol of the…

— Roger Revelle

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

One of the characteristics of the university is that it is made up of professors who train professors, or professionals training professionals. Education was…

— Pierre Hadot

University, as institutions, pre-date the information economy by many centuries and are not for-profit cultural entities, whose reason of existence (purportedly) is to discover…

— Bruce Sterling

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

Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student's life, and an institution should do what it…

— Derek Bok

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the…

— James Loeb

“It was not until 1948 that Cambridge University stopped requiring a knowledge of classical (ancient) Greek as a prerequisite for admission. This requirement was…

— Norman F. Cantor

I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics.…

— Tim Blake Nelson