Quotes About Academia

Yes, academia is often in the brainwashing business and revisionist history is alive and well.

I like doing scholarship for its own sake.

Well, I think that, you know, there's often two ways to become a scientist. One is to actually get your Ph.D. and then the other is to run for office.

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.

In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be true. But lots of other stuff can have an influence.

The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in the United States.

The point of second naïveté is not to reach a position where one rejects academic debates but rather to provide a space in which readers can place these ongoing debates to one side so that they can attend to the transforming source of the text itself. It is this transforming source that we speak of when we speak of the Word of God.

In the 2009–2010 school year, around 690,000 non-U.S. citizens were enrolled at American colleges, the highest level in the world and up 26 percent from a decade ago. Non-U.S.

I was horrified to visit our universities and find that at the Punjab Agriculture University or at the Animal and Husbandry University, we don't have scientists.

I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.

I was promoted associate professor in early 1970 and full professor in October of the same year. I spent the two spring semesters of 1972 and 1974 as visiting professor at Harvard University, giving lectures and directing a research project.

Before my mother was a King, she was a gifted vocalist and musician, whose skill and academia garnered her a scholarship to the prestigious New England Conservatory for Music in Boston.

Academics' lives are seldom interesting.

Like every other self-respecting academic, I'm distrustful of self-help books.

The M.F.A. is a degree in servitude. It is a way to keep writing safe - to keep reading safe from writing.

But what do we expect will become of students, successfully cocooned from uncomfortable feelings, once they leave the sanctuary of academe for the boorish badlands of real life?

It's not an advantage to be without a PhD. But it's an advantage not to have taken a PhD because of the things that they do to you to get you into the slot that they want you in.

I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

I think peer review is hindering science. In fact, I think it has become a completely corrupt system. It's corrupt in many ways, in that scientists and academics have handed over to the editors of these journals the ability to make judgment on science and scientists.

It is plagiarism when you take something out of a book and use it as your own. If you take it out of several books then it is research.

In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students.

I walked into an international economics tutorial, and the professor said, 'I don't know how to teach a woman.' I said, 'It's the same as teaching a man.' I just sat down, and he had no choice but to start teaching. When I handed in my first paper, I think that shut him up.

More Brazilian women earn Ph.D.s every year than do men.

Academic success depends on research and publications.