universities quotes

American critics are like American universities†both have dull and half-dead faculties.

- Edward Franklin, III Albee
  Speech to the NewYork Cultural League. Reported in news summaries, 6 Nov.

As to our universities,I've come to the conclusion that theyare e  litist where they should be egalitarian, and egalitarian where they should be e  litist.

- David John Lodge
  Nice Work, pt.5, ch.4.

If the roads, the railways, the banks, the insurance offices, the great joint-stockcompanies, the universities, and the public charities, were all of them branches of government; if, in addition, the municipal corporations and local boards, with all that now devolves on them, became departments of the central administration; if the employees of all these different enterprises were appointed and paid by the government, and looked to the government for every rise in life; not all the freedom of the press and popular constitution of the legislature would make this or any other country free otherwise than in name.

-John Stuart Mill
  On Liberty.

No manshould escape ouruniversitieswithout knowing how little he knows.

-J(ulius) Robert Oppenheimer
  In Partisan Review, Summer issue.

Brilliant lecturers shouldn't be wasted in lecture rooms: they should appear onTV. We need black market universities, in which people just help each other, and which don't leave out the poor.

-Theodore Zeldin
  Quoted in Christina Hardyment 'Zeldin and the art of human relationships', in OxfordToday, vol.7, no.2, Hilary Issue.