#universities

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

#employment #entertainment #exist #ideas #knowledge

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. ↗

— David Lodge

#cathedrals #criteria #existence #justify #modern

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

— H. L. Mencken

#burn #damage #might #universities #worse

Years ago when you'd go to a working group most of the people in the working group would be from universities. Now most of the people are from companies who are building internet products and care what the standards turn out to be. ↗

— Jon Postel

#building #care #companies #go #group

France has a very important relationship with Germany. But that does not mean that we agree about everything or that two of our universities or companies are not going to compete. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#agree #companies #compete #does #everything

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

#come #conventions #easy #everybody #filmmakers

Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days. ↗

— Tony Randall

#departments #good #many #theatre #these

Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country. ↗

— Ric Keller

#african americans #black #colleges #country #enriching

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

— Phyllis Schlafly

#big #biggest #colleges #media #universities

I think that the balance needs to be restored, and I would note that in the camp in which I am in, one finds libraries, universities, the Internet industry, the manufacturers of digital media, and consumers. ↗

— Rick Boucher

#balance #camp #consumers #digital #finds