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“I sighed and tried to return back to my schoolwork, but being bored of what I was learning, I gave time away to articles about Hypatia, precocity, young philosophers, and, during arbitrary, episodic moments, the [rubik's] cube. I was procrastinating, yet I still wanted to be diligent and academically edified.”

Humor Procrastination Schooling Commentary Academics Rubik S Cube

Book:For the Intellect

Source: For the Intellect

“Bring 'em in stupid, send them away clever, that's the UU way!”

University Higher Education Academics Unseen University

Book:A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices

Source: A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices

“As the physicist Murray Gell-Mann once remarked: “Faculty members are familiar with a certain kind of person who looks to the mathematicians like a good physicist and looks to the physicists like a good mathematician. Very properly, they do not want that kind of person around.”

Academics Physicists Mathematicians

Book:Chaos: Making a New Science

Source: Chaos: Making a New Science

“While scholars can, of course, be activists and activists can be scholars, combining these two roles is liable to create problems and, when a political stance is taught at university, it is apt to become an orthodoxy, which cannot be questioned.”

Theory Teachers Objectivity Political Correctness Relativism Academics Activist Scholarship

Author:Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay

“It used to be considered a failure of teaching or scholarship to work from a particular ideological standpoint. Academics were incentivized...by knowing that other scholars could - and would - point out evidence of bias or motivating reasoning and counter it with evidence and argument. Teachers could consider their attempts at objectivity successful if their students did not know what their political or ideological positions were.”

Theory Teachers Objectivity Political Correctness Relativism Academics Activist Scholarship

Author:Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay

“Publish and forget.”

Writing Literature Books Genius Writer Publishing Publish Academia Academics Academic Writing

Book:The Humanitarian Dictator

Source: The Humanitarian Dictator

“academia: (n.) terminal condition in which the head gradually swells while the heart slowly atrophies.”

Humor Education Comedy Satire Academia Brainwashing Academics Ivory Tower Academe Academia Humor

Book:The Angel's Dictionary

Source: The Angel's Dictionary

“Intellect without implementation is ignorance, not intelligence.”

Ignorance Intelligence Intellect Professors Doers Implementation Academics Doers Of The Word Doers Vs Talkers Practitioners

Author:Richie Norton

“As I see it, academia is the mirror of society, and the ugly academic reality we are witnessing nowadays is an indication that many academics have let the society down, and that we have not done a good job in being part of people’s struggle for justice.”

Activism Academia Academics Academic Education Academic Freedom Speaking Truth To Power Academic Industrial Complex

Author:Louis Yako