Quotes About Academia

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

Doamne, s? avem iertare, Da la noi un oarecare N?scocitor nu s? È™tie În nice-o academie. Acilea toÈ›i nainteaz? Dupe ani, nu dupe vaz?, Dox? ai ori dox? n-ai, EÈ™ti doftor la treij-de ai, La patruzeci înv??at, La cincizeci om luminat, Iar d-agiungi la È™aptezeci La nemuritori tu treci.

Too often, ideas meant to yield a certain practice are instead transported into the academy, as fare for 'enriching' a curriculum and, of course, generating jobs for the growing professoriat.

Many Christians with Ph.D.'s have simply absorbed a two-track approach to their subject, treating science or sociology or history as though it consisted of religiously neutral knowledge, where biblical truth has nothing important to say.

there is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it.

intellectual diversity is the form of diversity that seems to be least valued in universities

It is not only in academia and on the remnants of the Left that you encounter the argument that to prefer democracy to tyranny in other cultures, or the rights of women to the demands of misogynist clerics, is to announce yourself as insensitive brute or interfering imperialist.

Academics, students, readers of and writers for most leftish newspapers and all but the bravest Muslim and poor world intellectuals share this group's defining unwillingness to condemn crimes that can't be blamed on the West.

Richard Feynman said that the differences between true sciences and the pseudo-sciences – a category that includes the management-speak of the business schools – was that the former try to be honest, while the latter do not.

The "ivory tower" has a bad reputation only among the inhabitants of intellectual hovels.

tertulia inaceptable para la Academia Sueca, siendo que en las últimas décadas para ser galardonado en literatura no importa tanto que el premiado sea talentoso o un idiota, sino que lo gravitante es que sea de izquierda o que al menos sea funcional a ella.

Academia ar trebui s? fie un institut eminamente filozofic - Doar o unic? facultate - întreg a?ez?mântul organizat în vederea stimul?rii ?i exers?rii adecvate a for?ei de gândire.

The land of scholars, and the nurse of arms.

The fantasies of 'academic freedom' . . . cannot protect a professor who counsels resistance to the law and speaks, writes, disseminates treason. That a teacher of youth should teach sedition and treason, that he should infect, or seek to infect, youthful minds with ideas fatal to their duty to the country, is intolerable.

Theory of all types is often presented as being so abstract that it can be appreciated only by a select few. Though often highly satisfying to academics, this definition excludes those who do not speak the language of elites and thus reinforces social relations of domination.

We can't do anything but snap at each other," I said. "The masters made sure of that. Anything too extreme would get us expelled for Conduct Unbecoming a Member of the Arcanum. Why do you think I haven't made his life a hell?" "You're lazy?" Wil suggested.

I greatly appreciate the work of Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga. He has observed that many academicians have a disdain for the term popularizer. However, he urges Christian philosophers not to leave their work "buried away in professional journals" but to make it available to the broader Christian community. If they don't connect their work to the life of the church, then they "neglect a crucial and central part of their task as believing philosophers.

Only in the detached from reality world of goofy Hollywood and modern academia could a mass murderer like Che Guevara be turned into something of a cult celebrity.

I know how it works, Esther. I graduated from Harvard." "Book-smart, but life-stupid," said Esther.