Quotes About Academia

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

Quién querría enseñar liderazgo cuando la academia no cree en los líderes? Al mismo tiempo, la literatura inglesa reemplazó a los clásicos y el pensamiento antiguo dejó de estar en boga.

staying safely in the ivory tower is much more comfortable for academics,

The academic community is an attractive working environment,

Scholarship must go on. For good or for evil, but inevitably, in every field.

In the new order a Locke was freewith almost no danger of being interfered withto think his sublime thoughts, to seek the first causes of all things, to understand the nature of things. He could talk with his friends and teach the young. And there was money enough. The academies and universities satisfied Socrates demand to be fed in the prytaneum.

Terrorists remain determined to find a weakness in our defence... To stay ahead of the terrorists, I call on the international community, the private sector, and academia to share knowledge, expertise, and resources to prevent new technologies becoming lethal terrorist weapons.

I was in school for a little bit at Rutgers for political science, but it was very loose.

I thought I would go into philosophy and political science.

I took pre-med courses in college.

We are not training crafts people as we used to do. We're not giving people the chance to learn. Education has become very academic. There's nothing wrong with academic for some people, but not all.

At one time, the Left had a monopoly not merely of the media and academia, but also of the world of policy think tanks.

The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things...

That academic work had a static dimension to it, like we were studying from a distance, analyzing and scrutinizing, making distinctions about distinctions. In that world I got points for precision, for my ability to parse and exegete and summarize. I was rewarded for how well I could pin the butterfly.

But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in' proud to use the title. I won't touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.

A doctorate is a union card to get a tenured job. It does not mean that the holder thereof is wise or learned.

I knew that the stupidest students, the silliest professors, and the worst bull courses are concentrated in schools of education

It all rather reminds me of a remark once made to me by Alan Watts: The great error of academic historians is the belief that the Roman Empire 'fell.' It never 'fell.' It still controls the Western world through the Vatican and the Mafia.

She reeked of tenure

Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians.

And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

Learned researches lead to headaches, constipation, and befuddled quarreling.