John Stuart Mill Quote

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.


J. S. Mill in his inaugural address as Rector of St. Andrews in 1867. Quoted in M. Sanderson, The Universities and British Industry 1850–1970 (1972)


There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.