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A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.

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

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 task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

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

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.

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

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 exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.