Education Quote by W.E.B. Du Bois

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

A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn…

— Sydney J. Harris

No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide…

— Louis L'Amour

“The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre…

— Anonymous

University should foster imagination and creativity, enriching society in the process.

— Owen Jones

“A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society…It is…

— Cardinal Newman

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

“The main function of a university is not to grant degrees and diplomas, but to develop the university spirit and advance learning. The former…

— Anonymous

Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals; yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for the unfolding…

— Eric Hoffer

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

If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced…

— Charles Babbage

University research is crucial to our future as a nation.

— Chris Grayling