Quotes About Academia

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

borrowed an idea from academia: office hours. All subject-matter experts at Basecamp now publish office hours. For some that means an open afternoon every Tuesday. For others it might be one hour a day. It's up to each expert to decide their availability.

Too much time in academia can actually do you harm. Take writing, for example. When you get out of school, you have to unlearn so much of the way they teach you to write there. Some of the misguided lessons you learn in academia: The longer a document is, the more it matters. Stiff, formal tone is better than being conversational. Using big words is impressive. You need to write a certain number of words or pages to make a point.

It's no wonder so much business writing winds up dry, wordy, and dripping with nonsense. People are just continuing the bad habits they picked up in school. It's not just academic writing, either. There are a lot of skills that are useful in academia that aren't worth much outside of it.

Too much time in academia can actually do you harm. There are a lot of skills that are useful in academia that aren't worth much outside of it.

Por su parte, los sentimentales se aferraban a la Academia por sus reminiscencias históricas, y a su vez los melómanos la adoraban por su excelente acústica, una cualidad tan problemática en salas construidas para escuchar música.

Harvard has plenty of people that are way more important than football players.

A bunch of chairs lined up in front of a podium equals school.

I thought I was gonna get a doctorate in composition or be a composer and be at a university for the rest of my life, mostly because my parents are academics, and that was the logical thing to do.

I was born in Middletown, Connecticut, while my dad was getting his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology and anthropology at Wesleyan University.

Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful.

I don't know what has caused this reawakening in academia. Obama? The GOP's assaults on science and on patients? Jon Stewart? I'm not at all sure. I just know I don't feel nearly as alone in academia as I used to. I'm feeling increasingly surrounded by fellow Ph.D.'s and by M.D.'s who seem to be taking a lot of things personally.

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

German professors of that time were like God, only more frightening.

No more than 25 percent of the guests at a university dinner party can come from the economics department without spoiling the conversation.

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

We need a revolution in academia, with every social science attempting to understand the causes of happiness.

About one hundred refugee physicists emigrated to the United States between 1933 and 1941.

About one hundred refugee physicists emigrated to the United States between 1933 and 1941.727

I put myself up for full professor, an act of such unprecedented and unmitigated arrogance that the committee approved it, thus effectively rooting me to the scene of the crime, too weighed down by tenure, rank, and salary to be marketable ever again.

That's a relief. I hate it when scholars disagree.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? It's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants.

Distrust of higher education has been an enduring feature of fundamentalism and evangelicalism.