Quotes About Scholarship

Football, fraternities, and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

To put an end to the spirit of inquiry that has characterized the West it is not necessary to burn the books. All we have to do is to leave them unread for a few generations.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

I once sheepishly asked a prominent Evangelical apologist, with his PhD in New Testament, if he had ever chanced to read Strauss's Life of Jesus Critically Examined. He had not. Things began to become clear to me. He didn't know that all his trusty arguments had been thoroughly refuted many decades before he was born.

Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul.

Let your mind drink deeply from the works of the great philosophers, such

This partly reflects the Balkanization of history – that scholars attend only to their special time and place. But, for the most part, it reflects that far too many scholars rely on the received wisdom, even on matters central to their subject.

our most famous universities as esteemed as ever.

Standards-based grading is grounded in several key principles: grades must accurately describe a student's progress and current level of achievement; habits of scholarship should be assessed and reported separately; grades are for communication, not motivation or punishment; grades must be specific enough in what they measure that it is clear what students need to work on to improve; and student engagement is key to the grading process.

Whenever they met, they stayed away from money talk and spoke of educational policy.

Each of his children had been matched to a black scholarship student whose education was paid for by the family

Earlier generations of biographers had to rely on only a meager portion of his voluminous output.

The Darkling Halls of Ivy, I

Good ideas are not taken seriously enough when they come from people of low status in the academic world; conversely, the ideas of high-status people are often taken too seriously.

The German university students were among the earliest groups to back Hitler. The intellectuals were among his regime's most ardent supporters. Professors with distinguished academic credentials, eager to pronounce their benediction on the Führer's cause, put their scholarship to work full time; they turned out a library of admiring volumes, adorned with obscure allusions and learned references.

The academic world is competitive. For ideas, grants, students, funding.

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.

If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

Never mistake education for intellect.

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

Alas, higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue, or higher political wisdom.

The proper study of mankind is books. –

I thought the definition of an educated person was one who at least knows what's in the great books he or she hasn't read" (p. 169).