The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.
A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
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 things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.
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.
Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.
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.
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