#universities

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#chaps #explaining #go #going #how

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#haven #i #i write #lecture #silent

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#age #change #chief #early #enforce

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#am #criticism #entered #goes #i

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout. ↗

— Tom Hayden

#build #california #clout #gangs #money

When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#black #i #least #none #philosophers

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#exercise #freedom #government #great #independence

When I'm makin' lectures to these universities, I tell 'em I like that little building because when I run short a audience, if I can get three people in there I've got a good crowd. ↗

— Howard Finster

#because #building #crowd #get #good

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#course #fragmentation #our #systems #their

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#market #notoriously #now #oriented #suddenly