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What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.


George Bernard Shaw


#education #education

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.


Terry Eagleton


#education #humanities #university #education

You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said Miss Hillyard. "It didn't pay, did it? Say he sacrificed his professional honour for the women and children we hear so much about -- but in the end it left him worse of." But that," said Peter, "was only because he committed the extra sin of being found out.


Dorothy L. Sayers


#dishonesty #falsification #family #financial-distress #honor

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.


Werner Herzog


#film #movies #passion #scholars #scholarship

The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine - and no perishable - work within institutions


Nassim Nicholas Taleb


#academics #darwin #einstein #freud #institutions

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.


Hillary Clinton


#almost #breaches #business #communications #confidential

A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and heap the flattery on academia - each of which Mr. Bush has signally failed to do.


Thomas Frank


#accessible #aiming #bush #each #failed

I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance.


Jon Ronson


#academia #also #carpet #course #courtroom

See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.


Dorothy L. Sayers


#falsification #honesty #integrity #lies #oxford

I still feel glad to emphasize the duty, the defining characteristic of the pure scientist—probably to be found working in universities—who commit themselves absolutely to specialized goals, to seek the purest manifestation of any possible phenomenon that they are investigating, to create laboratories that are far more controlled than you would ever find in industry, and to ignore any constraints imposed by, as it were, realism. Further down the scale, people who understand and want to exploit results of basic science have to do a great deal more work to adapt and select the results, and combine the results from different sources, to produce something that is applicable, useful, and profitable on an acceptable time scale.


C.A.R. Hoare


#academic #research #theory #science






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