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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
H. L. Mencken

After, Might, Worse

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Flannery O'Connor

Good, Best, Teacher

I don't believe in colleges and universities.
Ray Bradbury

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

Knowledge, Ideas, Values

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
Orson Welles

Today, Teach, Mud

The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
Jack Welch

Work, Hard, Around

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
George Santayana

Free, Reflection, Middle

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
H. G. Wells

Education, Graduation, Made

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Knowing, Knows, Escape

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
Carter G. Woodson

Known, Outside, South

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.
Audre Lorde

Women, Men, Black

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
Fidel Castro

Share, Beliefs, Available

I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.
Sonia Sotomayor

Work, Two, Nation

I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.
Susan Orlean

Money, Sports, Long

The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.
Dennis Prager

Minds, Open, Deceive

Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.
Marc Andreessen

Great, Business, Deep

Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.
Dennis Prager

Everything, American, High

Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.
Dennis Prager

Selfish, Free, While

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
Alan Dershowitz

Great, Freedom, Government

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.
Arthur Erickson

Systems, Advocate

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?
Peter Kropotkin

Character, Within, Force

The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students coming into the U.K. There's a job here not just for the government, I think there's a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open.
Theresa May

Government, Job, Understand

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
A. N. Wilson

Taught, Finished, Rubbish

The U.S. is the biggest investor in research and development in the world. It has the best universities. Keeping them supplied with the best talent is essential.
James Dyson

Best, Talent, Research

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.
J. G. Ballard

Change, Age, Means

I bring other constituencies - I also have ties to minority communities. And obviously, to the world of world-class research universities. So I can bring some constituencies that I'm used to working with.
Donna Shalala

Working, Used, Research

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
George Will

Food, Society, Mind

After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.
Phyllis Schlafly

After, Big, Values

I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to get the neighbors to come out, put some ketchup on them.
George A. Romero

Young, Put, Talk

Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.
Jeremy Rifkin

Life, Science, Schools

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