In his Idea of University, Yespei repeatedly emphasized that a university must have a "free flow of knowledge".

Munro pointed out that academic freedom exists not for the benefit of university teachers, but for the well-being of the society he serves, and ultimately for the well-being of mankind.

Whitehead said: The existence of universities is to combine old age with young age to engage in creative learning, and to seek the integration of knowledge and passion for life.

Peck described the university as a fortress of the holy grail of pure scholarship, and praised teachers as knights serving the priesthood.

universities are not training manpower, but cultivating "human independence". In addition to knowledge, university education should pay more attention to the problem of virtue.

-hutchins is known as "the most humanistic university president in the 2th century". During his tenure as president of the University of Chicago in 1929, he took effective educational reform measures.

Universities must always give something to the society, which is not what the society wants, but what the society needs.

—— Franksner, a famous American educator, founded the Princeton Center for Advanced Studies in 193.

The reason why a university is called a university lies in its cultural existence and spiritual existence. University culture is a culture that pursues truth, is rigorous and realistic, pursues ideals and life ambitions, advocates academic freedom, advocates integrating theory with practice, advocates morality, is generous and tolerant, and has a strong critical spirit.

-Yang Fujia, former president of Fudan University, president of Nottingham University, and the first Chinese president of a British university

Universities should abandon their research functions and concentrate on free education and professional education.

-Sydney? Hooke, a famous scholar of Frankfurt School and an American pragmatic philosopher < P > The honor of a university lies not in its buildings and numbers, but in its quality from generation to generation.

-James? Conant, a former president of Harvard University. During World War II, he was the central figure in organizing American science. < P > All the scholars were college students. However, the so-called university students are not the big school buildings, the big students' age, or the big teachers' salaries, but the noble morality and profound knowledge.

—— Ma Xiangbo founded Sinian College in 193. Fudan public school was founded in 195, and twice served as its president (supervisor)

Where does the history of a university exist? In written records, in the physical objects of buildings, of course. However, it also exists in people's memory. Relatively speaking, it exists in people's memory, and time is limited, but it exists after all, and this existence is more concrete, vivid and fascinating.

-Ji Xianlin, a famous archaeologist, historian and writer

Judging a school, I look at people rather than universities.

-Chen Danqing, contemporary artist

Cambridge taught me to open my eyes, my thirst for knowledge was aroused by Cambridge, and my self-awareness was given to me by Cambridge.

—— Xu Zhimo, China poet and essayist. A farewell to Cambridge

Universities can cultivate all abilities, including stupidity.

-Chekhov, a great Russian critical realist writer at the end of 19th century

Building a university is equivalent to destroying ten prisons.

-Hugo, an outstanding bourgeois democratic writer in the history of French literature