Backwards Quote by Thomas Huxley

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

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.

— Dean Koontz

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

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

The old university attitude of 'publish or perish' has changed. Students and academics are realising that institutions such as Imperial College are also wealth-generators.…

— Chris Toumazou

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

And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a…

— Terry Pratchett

“In feudal times the aristocracy had sent their sons to university, conferring superiority on the institution. Nowadays it was the other way round: the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate…

— Terry Eagleton

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes…

— H. G. Wells