Noam Chomsky Quotes

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.

I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development.

Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.

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

As one of the country's largest land-grant universities, Ohio State must play a critical role in moving our country forward.

A university is a place that is established and will function for the benefit of society provided it is a center of independent thought.

I was a history major at Princeton University; I took exams in war and diplomacy, and I find those things very fascinating.

'The Anthill' is the podcast wing of The Conversation, the site that presents news and views derived from the academic and research community.

Universities are not like supermarkets: their job is to serve the country, not just the customers who happen to walk through their doors.

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

People who spend their working hours in a lab or research library or a classroom might be intent primarily on keeping or advancing their elite positions, thereby lending tacit support to power structures. Or they might not be.

I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world ...make it a better place for this and future generations.

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

We want American families to feel more confident in life. We want the next generation to know that yes, the best days of this country are still ahead of us.

The university has become a place that prepares you for the fights in the world.

I am a beau in nothing but my books.

Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.

University presidents should be loud and forceful in defending the university as a social good, essential to the democratic culture and economy of a nation. They should be criticizing the prioritizing of funds for military and prison expenditures over funds for higher education. And this argument should be made as a defense of education, as a crucial public good, and it should be taken seriously. But they aren't making these arguments.

Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

It is not that the university as such is against spiritual formation. It is just that often the university does not know how to integrate spiritual formation within its academic disciplines.

Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.

May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.