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“A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.”
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“The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue”
Alfred North Whitehead quotes (British Mathematician and Philosopher, 1861-1947)
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“Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist”
Robert Maynard Hutchins quotes (American Educator, active in forming the Committee to Frame a World Constitution (1945), led the Commission on Freedom of the Press (1946), and vigorously defended academic freedom, opposing faculty loyalty oaths in the 1950s. 1899-1977)
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“There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.”
John Masefield quotes (British poet, 1878-1967)
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“Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.”
Abbott Lawrence Lowell quotes (American Lawyer and University President of Harvard, 1856-1943)
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“There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.”
Robert M. Hutchins quotes (American Educator and Writer, active in forming the Committee to Frame a World Constitution (1945), led the Commission on Freedom of the Press (1946), and vigorously defended academic freedom, opposing faculty loyalty oaths in the 1950s. 1899-1977)
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“I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint-no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided...”
Richard M. Nixon quotes (American 37th US President (1969-74), 1913-1994)
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“No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.”
Lawrence Clark Powell quotes (American Librarian, Writer and Critic, 1906-2001)
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“It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.”
George McGovern quotes (American Politician. b.1922)
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“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all”
Aristotle quotes (Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scientist and Physician, 384 BC-322 BC)
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“Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony”
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