211 Quotes About Academia

It only confirmed what I'd always thought - that for all their education university professors can't even imagine political developments having any effect on their careers : they consider themselves untouchable.

every professor secretly thinks that what the world needs is a good, solid lecture--from him, of course.

In academia, it seems that when we have nothing much to say we attempt to distract attention from that sad fact by saying it as pretentiously and at as much length as possible.

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.

We teach aspirational ethics. What I teach my students is, You’re born heroic. I go into these animal studies, and heroism is actually in our nature. What you have to do is make sure that the system doesn’t change you, that our educational system doesn’t teach you to be willfully blind and to forget your aspirations, because that’s the default position.

During those years he met his seminars,went & lectured & read, talked with human beings,paid insurance & taxes;but his mind was not on it. his mind was elsewheresin an area where the soul not talks but sings& where foes are attacked with axes.

Social power is at stake in theory-making, but the workings of this power are often unacknowledged -- and overdetermined.-- Making Magic, p. 23

With a cloak of naturalized rationalism, scholars can deflect our attention from the power effected in their theory-making.-- Randall Styers, Making Magic, p. 23

It hardly does much good to have a complex mind without actually being a philosopher.