Democracies Quote by Sanjaya Baru

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

Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can be made…

— Henry Giroux

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

— Stanley Fish

Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for…

— Michelle Obama

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

I think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

No institutions in modern society are better equipped to catalyze the necessary transition to a sustainable world than colleges and universities. They have access…

— David W. Orr

It is equally unreasonable to run a university as a "participatory democracy," the approach to governance that once existed in Europe. That approach in…

— Henry Rosovsky

Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as a public…

— Henry Giroux

With the corporatization and privatization of higher education, it is increasingly more difficult for colleges and universities to expand and deepen democratic public life,…

— Henry Giroux

The current siege on higher education, whether through defunding education, eliminating tenure, tying research to military needs, or imposing business models of efficiency and…

— Henry Giroux

This is why universities, and civil society more generally, are so important for a democracy like ours, founded on a genuine idealism that we…

— Abhijit Banerjee