“ Fortunately, our colleges and universities are fully cognizant of the problems I have been delineating and take concerted action to address them. Curricula are designed to give coherence to the educat… William Deresiewicz
“ Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others. Sergio de la Pava
“ For every group, malevolence is always somewhere else. Maybe we understand at this point in history that it can occur at night in darkened rooms where small children sleep. However, surely not in acad… Anna C. Salter
“ There were no actual villains, just inertia. The administration genuinely wanted more diversity for reasons of its image as well as fairness, notwithstanding the cranky alumni letters in The Daily Pri… Sonia Sotomayor
“ It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him. Amanda Craig
“ The first finding that jumped out at us was that it is possible to learn too much ! In the tournament, investing lots of time in learning was not at all effective. In fact, we found a strong negative… Kevin N. Laland
“ One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one's philosophy to f… Aldous Huxley
“ Have I mentioned the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, and the collapse of a section of the Bay Bridge, or the Oakland ‘firestorm’ of 1991? No need. There are already there, in my narratives that fail t… Robert Appelbaum
“ A computer search would have given me a list of pertinent cases, but without that I had to read everything. That is harder by far, but you end up learning a lot more. I was forced to remember cases be… Shon Hopwood
“ She took a deep breath. "Let me begin again." If this girl wanted to play ball in front of her department head, Christine would bring it. She closed her eyes and accessed the most expensive Philo Depa… Red Tash
“ In musing on all that occurred in the course of the several years of harassment the error I decided I made, and others frequently make, is to assume that we are all academics trying to sort out intell… Anna C. Salter
“ Shulman argues that work that is valued is work that is presented to colleagues. The failure to make this kind of wider connection weakens the sense of community. This happens in scholarly life when s… Charles E. Glassick
“ Ideas matter—and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be done in as public a forum as possible. Sam Harris
“ The classical anthropological question, What is man?—"how like an angel, this quintessence of dust!"—is not now asked by anthropologists. Instead, they commence with a chapter on Physical Anthropology… Paul Goodman
“ But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before. John Williams
“ The past gathered out of the darkness where it stayed, and the dead raised themselves to live before him; and the past and the dead flowed into the present among the alive, so that he had for an inten… John Williams
“ A large majority of our respondents were inspired by a tension in their domain that became obvious when looked at from the perspective of another domain. Even though they do not think of themselves as… Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“ In projecting onto others their own moral sense, therapists sometimes make terrible errors. Child physical abusers are automatically labeled “impulsive," despite extensive evidence that they are not n… Anna C. Salter
“ Hirota feels strongly drawn toward nature and the natural, is hyper-sensitive to the artificial—particularly that most cramped and constraining man-made creation, society—and does his best to avoid it… Sōseki Natsume
