A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
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.
A university is supposed to be a place where all ideas are discussed.
The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.
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.
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.
The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.