211 Quotes About Academia

The epitome of white privilege is the luxury of believing that "real communism has never been tried.

The words "brilliant," "radical," "original" were more often than not the descriptors applied to Scholar Kiladi's work. There was of course a leavening of "popinjay," "recluse," and "dangerous madman" from his detractors, but those served more to relieve than alarm her. A scholar who did not make collegial enemies was a scholar who was not exercising his intellect to its fullest extent.

Given the current pace of its corporatization, academia may well become the worst institution for indoctrinating and subjugating many brilliant minds that may otherwise have great potential for dissidence and creating a new worldview, which is much needed amid the global turmoil we are experiencing internationally.

These dons, so ponderous, so circuitous, , no sense of time. In a minute they'll be talking about the meaning of meaning.

The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small

The language of starlings reminded her of nothing so much as the language of scholarly papers, the smooth and chilly syntax devoid of contour, the maddening reliance on 'the royal we' as the subject. Yet this was not the royal we, not in the sense that a pompous colleague or one of her lazy graduate students might use it: at least twenty birds had together formed the multilayered sound that came to her as English words.

Research pays twenty-five dollars a week minus laundering the hair shirt. You've got to give up your life to go into it.

What would he do? He wouldn't be sitting here moping.He'd be figuring out some way of getting out of here. Christ,I'm woefully short on practical experience. The researcher'sdoom, actual field conditions.

...he imagined another life for himself as one of these silent scholars, buried in his research like a guinea pig in its wood shavings, nibbling away steadily after some arcane piece of knowledge in the hope of making an addition, however imperceptible, to the collective pile.