#universities

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#course #fragmentation #our #systems #their

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

— Stanley Fish

#democracy #doing #learn #teach #universities

Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public. ↗

— Charles Vest

#both #congress #effectively #general #general public

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind. ↗

— George Will

#between #choice #eligible #equally #food

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#gets #i #i think #much #personally

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#exchange #free #here #ideas #mediums

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is! ↗

— Johnny Ball

#difficult #elegance #emphasise #how #mathematics

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#employment #entertainment #exist #ideas #knowledge

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself. ↗

— Edward Levi

#custodians #itself #man #many #only

The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students coming into the U.K. There's a job here not just for the government, I think there's a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open. ↗

— Theresa May

#coming #got #government #here #i