Quotes About Academia

Academia implores you to unlearn then relearn as you climb the ladder of knowledge, creating a thin line between the truth and evidence.

Para los mariateguistas, la prioridad académica era el adoctrinamiento.

The personal is theoretical.

When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.

I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.

Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their time comes, will manufacture professors.

It is absolutely what I think.' He looks deadly serious now. 'These academic guys have to feel important. They give papers and present TV programmes to show they're useful and valuable. But you do useful, valuable work every day. You don't need to prove anything. How many people have you treated? Hundreds. You've reduced their pain. You've made hundreds of people happier. Has Antony Tavish ever made anyone happier?

These academic guys have to feel important. They give papers and present TV programs to show they're useful and valuable. But you do useful, valuable work every day. You don't need to prove anything. How many people have you treated? Hundreds. You've reduced their pain. You've made hundreds of people happier. Has Antony Tavish made anyone happier?" I'm sure there's something wrong

I went back to graduate school because I wanted to avoid being a professional, to try to piece together a life that would let me avoid the tenure race and full-time teaching.

I cannot waste time in these classes and these books, memorizing the weak assumptions of lesser mortals.

the University being an asylum, a refuge from the world, for the dispossessed, the crippled.

Very well. I will take you to Oxford. It might be an educational opportunity at that. You can see the college your father attended, and so might aspire to those lofty towers of erudition and academia yourself." "What does he mean?" Billy asked his brother. "He means we can go.

It is often supposed that those who live and work in academic or intellectual circles are above the petty disputes that vex the rest of us, but it does sometimes seem as if the exalted nature of their work makes it necessary for them to descend occasionally and to refresh themselves, as it were, by squabbling about trivialities.

Scientists cloister themselves away from the rest of society, happy just to receive their next grant. They lose their connection to a purpose.

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

At Harvard, you don't major. You concentrate.

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

de la que tienen sus académicos colegas. Para éstos, Lévi-Strauss es una máquina de hilar fantasías efectistas.

The threat from cyber criminals and nation states continues to grow. So we need to forge closer partnerships with industry, academia and civil society, and develop the profession to create a more diverse workforce.

I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas than with people.

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

when a couple of members of the Harvard faculty announced all the evidence, Jefferson said, "I would rather believe that two Yankee professors have lied than believe that stones fall from the sky.…" He was a great man. But here he is wrong.