34 Quotes About Universities

Aujourd'hui, on cherche partout à répandre le savoir; qui sait si, dans quelques siècles, il n'y aura pas des universités pour rétablir l'ancienne ignorance?

The ordering of knowledge has changed with the centuries. All knowledge was once ordered in relation to the seven liberal arts— grammar, rhetoric, and logic, the trivium; arithmetic, geometry astronomy, and music, the quadrivium. Medieval encyclopedias reflected this arrangement. Since the universities were arranged according to the same system, and students studied according to it also, the arrangement was useful in education.[How to Read a Book (1972), P. 180]

The universities are really going to have to clean up their serious environmental radiation problems before I will advise anyone to enroll.

The world of books is my fantasy.

Universities have turned into very high powered radio frequency antenna parks.

I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into the universities in the Gulf states and he told me that he had a terrible time because, although they were very receptive to technology, they felt that science would be a corrosive to religious belief, and they were worried about it… and damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive of religious belief, and it’s a good thing too.

the dominance of state or empire over personal relationships; child-rearing and educational practices characterized by hard physical training and harsh discipline; the extraordinary role of military symbols in songs, rituals, and art; a cult of masculinity; and absorption of the family unit into the warfare state. It is worth considering the degree to which militarization has shaped our own society ...

It doesn't help that universities have become ground zero for political intolerance.

Egged on by leftist administrators and professors, radical students howl like wounded animals when exposed to any views outside the left-wing narrative.