Quote by Milton Friedman
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of idea

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

Other quotes by Milton Friedman
Other Quotes from
Knowledge
category

They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer. – Miroslav Vitous

Category:
Knowledge

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense. – Boris Spassky

Category:
Knowledge

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant. – John Abbott

Category:
Knowledge

The universitys business is the conservation of useless knowledge and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. – Albert J. Nock

Category:
Knowledge

Random Quotes

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. – Kevyn Aucoin

Category:
Beauty

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve. – Dean Acheson

Category:
Leadership

Every man is his own chief enemy. – Anacharsis

Category:
Danger

Im not one aspect of the human experience – none of us is. – Jennifer Aniston

Category:
Experience