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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.
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.
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.
A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
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 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.