Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
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.
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
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 is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.
For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.
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.
Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.
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