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


Alan Dershowitz


#exercise #freedom #government #great #independence

I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress.


Charles Vest


#been #believe #building #clearly #coalitions

The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.


Charles Vest


#coalition #concept #grew #group #grown

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


#forever #hard #idea #keeps #now

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


Orson Welles


#major #mud #pies #teach #today

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


Carter G. Woodson


#known #most #our #outside #scholars

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.


A. Bartlett Giamatti


#exchange #free #here #ideas #mediums

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.


Marilyn Hacker


#american #consider #creative #creative writing #culture

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!


Johnny Ball


#difficult #elegance #emphasise #how #mathematics

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.


Kingman Brewster, Jr.


#displeasure #distorted #examination #havens #inhibited






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