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Quote by Stanley Fish

“No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.”

Quote by Stanley Fish

Book:How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One

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How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One

This book delves into the intricacies of sentence structure, offering insights into effective writing and reading practices. more

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Stanley Fish is an American scholar renowned for his contributions to the fields of law, literature, and critical theory. Born on April 19, 1938, he has been a professor at Yale University and the University of Chicago, as well as an accomplished writer and critic. more

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“Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.”

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Source: Think Again: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education

“Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.”

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“I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.”

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Book:The Trouble with Principle

Source: The Trouble with Principle

“In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.”

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“It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.”

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“It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.”

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“Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.”

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“We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.”

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“The doctor looked at it after the game and he thought it didn't look too bad, but we'll see what happens. My skate got caught and I twisted it. I heard it twist and I couldn't get up. All my body weight fell on it. I had to be really hurt to leave the game - we were still in the game at that point.”

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