Universities are basically socialist institutions.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.
For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.
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.
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.
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 are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.