Famous Quotes - Tags - Academia

  • ... a full notecase,
    Dull Bodley, draught beer, and dark blue,
    And most often losing the... More
  • ... in the minds of search committees there is the lingering question: Can she manage the... More
  • ...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral... More
  • ...Women’s Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge... More
  • A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture.... More
  • A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his... More
  • Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely... More
  • All think what other people think;
    All know the man their neighbor knows.
    Lord, what... More
  • Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor... More
  • Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should... More
  • An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one... More
  • And hereby hangs a moral highly applicable to our own trustee-ridden universities, if to nothing... More
  • Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that... More
  • Bias, point of view, fury—are they ... so dangerous and must they be ironed out of history, the... More
  • Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about... More
  • College professors have two bad traits. They are logical
    and they are easily flattered. More
  • Does it stick in our minds as a touchstone
    Of learning and la politesse?
    For while the... More
  • Don different from those regal Dons!
    With hearts of gold and lungs of bronze,
    Who shout... More
  • Don here-and-there, Don epileptic;
    Don puffed and empty, Don dyspeptic;
    Don middle-class,... More
  • He saw the dark wainscot and timbered roof,
    The long tables, and the faces merry and... More
  • Here was a place where nothing was crystallized. There were no traditions, no customs, no college... More
  • here
    to this college on the hill above Harlem
    I am the only colored student in my class. More
  • I assure you that in our next class we will concern ourselves solely with the history of Egypt,... More
  • I haven’t read one book about
    A book or memorized one plot,
    Or found a mind I did not... More
  • I never went near the Wellesley College chapel in my four years there, but I am still amazed at... More
  • I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike—and I don’t think there... More
  • I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would... More
  • I was the Dreamer, they the Dream; I roam’d
    Delighted, through the motley... More
  • If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains... More
  • If, as a feminist leader, I try to help out the career of a rising woman faculty leader—I’m... More
  • Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a... More
  • In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity—or,... More
  • In verity, an independent world,
    Created out of pure intelligence. More
  • Institutions of higher education in the United States are products of Western society in which... More
  • It is odd that the NCAA would place a school on probation for driving an athlete to class, or... More
  • Let daemons possess us! Let us terrify like Erynnes, the whole tribe of academic... More
  • Looking in on our academic circles was the usual quota of P.H.T.’s, the Putting Husband... More
  • Nothing significant was really said,
    Though all agreed the talk superb.... More
  • Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. More
  • Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that... More
  • Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that... More
  • Slogan of the Academy: “But, on the other hand ...” More
  • Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals—and I say self-styled... More
  • Specialization is a feature of every complex organization, be it social or natural, a school... More
  • The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. More
  • The decline of a culture
    Mourned by scholars who dream of the ghosts of Greek boys. More
  • The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to... More
  • The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a... More
  • The lesson learned here is a costly one: If you stand up for your principles, follow the law, and... More
  • The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
    And all the sweet serenity of books. More
  • The popular colleges of the United States are turning out more educated people with less... More
  • The sleek, expensive girls I teach,
    Younger and pinker every year,
    Bloom gradually out of... More
  • The university is no longer a quiet place to teach and do scholarly work at a measured pace and... More
  • The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University... More
  • There are no golden geese. There are only fat geese eating the food that could nourish more... More
  • There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad. More
  • These young women have had four years of very special space.... This has been special space. This... More
  • They wear their godhead lightly.
    They look out from their hill and say,
    To themselves,... More
  • They were fighting tradition and change. It just wasn’t my time. More
  • Up the reputable walks of old established trees
    They stalk, children of the nouveaux riches;... More
  • We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the... More
  • [President Ellen Wood Hall is] short, with short gray hair that is not in the least bit... More
  • [Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume... More

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