A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student's life, and an institution should do what it can to make these years absorbing and enjoyable.
Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.
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.
There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.
If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.
A university is supposed to be a place where all ideas are discussed.
Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.
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 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.
College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.