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The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

Universities are like a utopia in a way, because you're mentally stimulated, you're challenged, and you have a lot of young, creative minds wanting to do new things, different things. Better things.

Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens who can engage in debate, dialogue and bear witness to a different and critical sense of remembering, agency, ethics and collective resistance.

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their way. It's like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for.

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

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.

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

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.