Academic Quote by Tim Berners-Lee

They wanted a great university without building a great university. They knew a lot about football, but not a lot about academia.

— Brad Carter

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

— Sebastian Thrun

A university is supposed to be a place where all ideas are discussed.

— Jerry Falwell, Jr

The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be…

— Ernest L. Boyer

Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.

— Derek Bok

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into…

— Eric Allin Cornell

“The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go on to…

— Bill Bryson

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

It is one thing for the institution to offer space for serious engagement, in thought and action, and to encourage free and independent use…

— Noam Chomsky

“Interest in academic system-building is dead; however, greater are the efforts by which every educated person seeks to draw the guiding strand of his…

— Ivan Kireyevsky

We know at lot more now than the 'last time around the 1960s and 1970s - about how to work for smart schools... '…

— David Perkins

The world has a rich tradition of leaders who fancy themselves smart enough to determine what the people should and shouldn't hear, and crack…

— Mary Katharine Ham