Cathedrals Quote by Tony Attwood

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

— David Lodge

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

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

— Dean Koontz

I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their…

— Alain de Botton

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

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

“Universities, he (William Dershowitz) says, have been absorbed into the commercial ethos. Instead of being intervals of freedom, they are breeding grounds for advancement.…

— David Brooks

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not…

— Albert J. Nock

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

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

— John Stuart Mill

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

— George Berkeley