58 Quotes About Higher-education

As living in a dark and airless tenement makes the victim susceptible to tuberculosis, so higher education renders women susceptible to the germs of feminism

[T]he elite academic institutions in America are fully controlled by fake legacies and greedy, unethical donors dictating how things work, how knowledge gets produced (or buried), and which researches get funded or shot down. In fact, I would not be surprised to learn that donors may even dictate which professors are hired behind closed doors.

Many contemporary critics of higher education similarly posit a Golden Age; but no one knows when it was supposed to exist.

Successful reformation must allow social justice ideology to remain in existence while it is removed from its current position as policy-maker, arbiter of expression and inquiry, and censor. Only by relegating social justice to the position of one among many other belief systems can the university successfully absorb the creed without remaining hostage to it.

This institution of higher education had no such concept as mercy.

Old English, the heart and soul of the old regime at Oxford, ceased to be a required course only as of 2002.

Bring 'em in stupid, send them away clever, that's the UU way!

A PhD does not automatically denote wisdom. Merely perseverance.

Who needs a love life when you've got the Life of the Mind?