Quotes About Academia

The fashion for French philosophers in the American universities has always been a fashion for the wrong philosophers.

Everyone in the sciences secretly believes that mathematicians are smarter than they are. I think mathematicians also believe this. At

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.

When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something.

lo más peligroso que tiene la educación académica, por lo menos en mi caso, es que habilita mi tendencia a intelectualizar las cosas en exceso, a perderme en el pensamiento abstracto en lugar de limitarme a prestar atención a lo que está pasando delante de mí. Y en lugar de prestar atención a lo que está pasando dentro de mí.

and while a couple of prorectors are feared, none of them is all that much respected, and they're avoided, and stick together with one another and keep to themselves and seem on the whole sad, with that grad-schoolish sense of arrested adolescence and reality-avoidance about them.

Probablemente lo más peligroso que tiene la educación académica, por lo menos en mi caso, es que habilita mi tendencia a intelectualizar las cosas en exceso, a perderme en el pensamiento abstracto en lugar de limitarme a prestar atención a lo que está pasando delante de mí. Y en lugar de prestar atención a lo que está pasando dentro de mí.

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.

The medical profession and the leading academic institutions where mind control research was done have not yet provided a meaningful public accounting, financial or ethical, of this experimentation.

Poëzie: de enige plaats waar onwetendheid het van academisme kan winnen.

The vast majority of people in academia, especially at the administrative level, have so little confidence in their ability to make an argument for their liberal cause, they choose to keep conservatives from making their own case at all. It's pathetic, cowardly, unconstitutional and completely predictable.

After college, I was burdened with student loans to repay, no financial cushion, so I wasn't in a position to bet everything on a creative-writing career - neither the writing-workshop academia life nor the freelance-writer version, trying to scrape by on short stories and house-painting gigs.

English was what people who didn't know what to major in majored in.

She'd seen it happen to her friends, fellow PhD students, some who'd published their work. Put a ring on their finger and, through some dark magic, they turned into wives and mothers, and instead of talking about Elizabethan poetry or symbolism in Shakespeare's sonnets or how the market economy had shaped post–Civil War America, it was all teething and toilet training and which towns had the most desirable school districts.

It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.

Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.

I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.

I double-majored in Political Studies and Theatre & Performance.

A lot of crap goes on in media studies, like in almost everything.

I'm double majoring in social studies - which is sociology, anthropology, economics, and philosophy - and African-American studies.

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.

Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.