Quotes About Universities

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

Imagine that the natural sciences were to suffer the effects of a catastrophe. A series of environmental disasters are blamed by the general public on the scientists. Widespread riots occur, laboratories are burnt down, physicists are lynched, books and instruments are destroyed. Finally a Know-Nothing political movement takes power and successfully abolishes science teaching in schools and universities, imprisoning and executing the remaining scientists.

Today our "leading universities" are the locus of the most amazing brainwashing in leftist ideology and the most amazing violators of academic freedom and freedom of speech.

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

The sane universities never went near this stuff, but Carnegie Mellon gave us explicit license to break the mold.

Most major universities now provide extensive courses online, many of which are free. MIT's OpenCourseWare (OCW) initiative has been a leader in this effort. MIT

In many cases, these young women have been hounded and threatened for speaking up; some have become suicidal as a result; the potential crimes go uninvestigated or unprosecuted; and many American universities appear to be graduating numerous unpunished rapists these days.

If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.

The universities will ask for money back so they can put their name on the side of a building without fully educating athletes .

At present the universities are as uncongenial to teaching as the Mojave Desert to a clutch of Druid priests. If you want to restore a Druid priesthood, you cannot do it by offering prizes for Druid-of-the Year. If you want Druids, you must grow forests.

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

self-preservation has one virtue, which is that it doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is. With altruism, there's almost always a hidden motive. The benefactor wants to be lionized or, worse, have the person he's helping at his mercy. Otherwise why would people who give money to universities want buildings named after them?

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.

Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.

A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.

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

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online as well.

À ce stade tardif de l'histoire, tout n'était que marketing. Les universités étaient contraintes de développer leur marque. Toute action charitable devait battre tambour. Les amitiés se mesuraient en partages, en likes, en liens. Poètes et prêtres, philosophes et pères de jeunes enfants : nous étions tous engagés dans un business total et sans fins.

Physics students at that time wandered Europe in search of exceptional masters much as their forebears in scholarship and craft had done since medieval days. Universities in Germany were institutions of the state; a professor was a salaried civil servant who also collected fees directly from his students for the courses he chose to give (a Privatdozent