Quotes about University Values

Bobby Seale

You can't call yourself a university and exclude whole ethnic groups.

Jerry Falwell Jr.

A university is supposed to be a place where all ideas are discussed.

George Monbiot

The Enlightenment ideal, which all universities claim to endorse, is that everyone should think for themselves.

Andres Bello

Liberty, as a counterweight to servile docility which receives everything without scrutiny ... will without question be the theme of this university.

Kingman Brewster Jr.

"Relevance" may not be best.... Impetuous action, conscious oversimplification, refusal to doubt, and the rejection of reason are enemies of the university.

In response to student demands for "relevant" courses and studies:

H. L. Mencken

It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent

Alain de Botton

I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their way. It's like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for.

Liberty University

The policies of the Democratic Party are not consistent with the philosophy of Liberty University.

Liberty University was a Christian Evangelical school that was controlled by conservative Republican figures, and unlike regular universities was not bipartisan. This quotation is significant because all secular universities and the vast majority of religious universities have been non-partisan and allowed political interest clubs for all political parties. Liberty university was an example of a new role for religion and religious universities—identifying with one political party and prohibiting its students from campus activities of the other major party.

University Values Quotes