211 Quotes About Academia

Most faculty spend a lot of time thinking about content and what to cover, but content delivery is not the core strength of a university, just as it is not for newspapers. The core strength of a university is integration.

…They used the fail-safe method for undergraduate work at any solid institution: take two utterly unrelated things or matters and show that they are, if not in fact identical, actually related in the most profound and subtle sense.

He was scrupulous about the use of his title because, his investigations being so utterly unscientific, he hoped to borrow an air of respectability, even scholarly authority, from his education.

But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before.

It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of sniping about methodology, a thrust and parry of source and countersource. My sources had to be better.

إن المدرسة المعلوماتية التراكمية معادية للفكر والإبداع، وتدور في إطار الموضوعية المتلقية، السلبية، العقل عندها آلة ترصد وتسجل،وليس طاقة إنسانية مبدعة تعيد صياغة العالم، وهي لاتكترث بالحق أو الحقيقة لأنها غرقت تماما في الحقائق والوقائع والأفكار المتناثرة، ترصدها من الخارج دون تعمق ودون اجتهاد وكأنها أشياء مرصوصة، كم لاهوية له، ولذا تفقد الظواهر شخصيتها ومنحناها الخاص

The path of specialization leads away from the ordinary and concrete acts of understanding in terms of which man actually lives his day-to-day life.

I don't understand, Your Majesty." "Of course you don't; you academics!" Skarmak snarled. "All you do is sit in your towers, trying to think your way into a reality that exists only in your own minds, and then you judge the world as wrong because it does not conform to your impossible standards. I live in a real world, academic. And it's my real world that keeps pumping blood into your dead, idealistic one.

I was an outsider. I was the egghead from academia who got in because the rules had changed. While I looked for validation from my fellow contemporaries, I instead found jealousy and envy. I did not find team spirit. This led to dissatisfaction, an unease.