Quotes About Academia

You can lead a man up to the university but you can't make him think.

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship

At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist

No one is truly interesting until he is in graduate school," pronounced Wilson.

Many contemporary critics of higher education similarly posit a Golden Age; but no one knows when it was supposed to exist.

I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.

Marybeth Gasman

In 1850, there were only eight graduate students in the entire United States.

All jargon of the schools.

I do not believe that what one gives to the sciences is taken from philosophy.

I've never been a big believer in formal education.

Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test.

Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!

Abstract academic discussions have a way of leaving their mark on entire civilizations, as the events of this century have proved all too well.

His textbooks

The second was Yale's complacent refusal to accommodate its sought-after assistant professor's request for a promotion to associate professor. Such rapid advancement cut against the grain in New Haven. Ernest's academic superiors were unable to see past his youth, much

That was the real question, and the one that destroyed her credibility in the world of academia. When it came to omnipotent beings living in gated communities in the clouds, people were willing to believe almost anything, but when it came to otherworldly species, they demanded a level of proof that couldn't be demonstrated without producing a body. That

Academic freedom: It's great, as long as you don't use it."

The academic study of literature leads basically nowhere, as we all know

The academic study of literature leads basically nowhere, as we all know, unless you happen to be an especially gifted student, in which case it prepares you for a career teaching the academic study of literature—it is, in other words, a rather farcical system that exists solely to replicate itself and yet manages to fail more than 95 percent of the time.

The academic study of literature leads basically nowhere, as we all know, unless you happen to be an especially gifted student, in which case it prepares you for a career teaching the academic study of literature—it is, in other words, a rather farcical system that exists solely to replicate itself and yet manages to fail more than 95 percent of the time. Still, it's harmless, and can even have a certain marginal value.

Humanistisen alan yliopisto-opinnot eivät tunnetusti johda mihinkään, paitsi lahjakkaimmilla opiskelijoilla humanistisen alan yliopistonopettajan uralle. Meillä on toisin sanoen hassunkurinen järjestelmä, jonka ainoa tavoite on omaneuvoinen lisääntyminen ja jossa jätteen osuus on yli yhdeksänkymmentäviisi prosenttia.