University Role Quotes

A university is supposed to show you ideas that offend you and make you feel uncomfortable,

Many policemen have not completed their education, and the university can help them on this front. Education will enable them to speak well and politely to the people.

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

Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

In the sciences particularly the large public universities must and do take an active role in fostering creativity and independence; otherwise the fields will wither, and along with them even the aspirations of wealth and power.

No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.

The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex.

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

Never did I think that the university was properly ministerial to the society around it. Rather I thought and think that society is ministerial to the university, and I bless a society that tolerates and supports an eternal childhood for some, a childhood whose playfulness can in turn be a blessing to society.

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.

We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

I believe that the future is determined by the great public universities. They educate 80 percent of the students and make the American Dream available.

I've known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that's so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn't you take university courses throughout your entire life?

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

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

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.

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

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 only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.

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.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

I don't really see what can be said about the role of faculty members, or universities, beyond the truisms voiced earlier, and their elaboration in various domains, ranging from focused intellectual pursuits to the concerns of the larger society and future generations.

Universities simply unable to play judge, jury and executioner when they're already having trouble playing educator. Resources are limited and colleges must put their focus on their primary objective: education.

The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.

As a university, we're not focused on bringing about huge reforms - that's not our role.