Quotes About Academia

epistemological disaster

Theology, however implausible many of its truth claims, is one of the most ambitious theoretical arenas left in an increasingly specialized world

But we're a university! We have to have a library! said Ridcully. It adds tone . What sort of people would we be if we didn't go into the library? Students, said Senior Wrangler morosely.

Many things went on at Unseen University and, regrettably, teaching had to be one of them. The faculty had long ago confronted this fact and had perfected various devices for avoiding it. But this was perfectly all right because, to be fair, so had the students.

He had never graduated from any college or university because he found them too slow for him, and too rigid in their approach to education. He could not get used to the idea that perhaps his professors knew what they were talking about.

I look at my own party, and I see that we've taken this technocratic, academic, elitist liberal class philosophy as far as it can go, and we got our butts kicked - and I don't know what else to do other than get involved myself.

Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.

Don't underestimate the viciousness of academics when funding is at stake.

Sociology is really in trouble as a field. I can tell you, because I've known young people who have wanted to go into it, and they have been uniformly advised, if you are a free thinker, stay away from sociology.

Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America.

I was frustrated with how academia tended to present feminist theory in disconnected or inaccessible ways. I wanted to try and bring a sociological feminist lens to the limited and limiting representations of women in the media and then share that with other young women of my generation. YouTube was the perfect medium.

I tried to double major in Psychology & Theater at Loyola Marymount but felt I needed to concentrate more on theater.

Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack.

A core plank of left-wing academic thought is that gender and race are 'socially constructed.'

I would have liked to have been a professor of sociology.

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.

The halls of academia are like the halls of a madhouse at midnight.

Una vez busqué en un diccionario el término hipocondríaco y le saqué una copia. -No sé si lo sabías, pero tu biografía viene en el Diccionario de la Real Academia le anuncié. Echó un vistazo a la fotocopia y me lanzó una mirada de alcayata. -Prueba a buscar en la i de idiota y verás que no soy el único famoso replicó JF.

Anthropologist and teacher Margaret Mead said in Redbook magazine in 1963, "If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the University and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter.

Ah—that's the beauty of higher education, sergeant. Never use two simple words when one really complicated one will do.

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.