“Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.” Has BeensCultureFameComplexitySignificanceAcademicPopular CultureProfundity Author:Dennis Prager
“For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a dream come true. These are the kinds of things that we sit around talking to each other about in our dusty libraries. To see these conversations take place in popular culture is the best thing that could have ever happened.” KindDreamCultureTalkingRolesHappenedIntegrityConversationLibraryBest ThingsAcademicDreams Come TrueScholarshipPopular CultureJournalisticReligion In Society Author:Reza Aslan
“In some sense our aim ought to be to convert the school from an academic institution into an intellectual one. That shift in the culture of schooling would represent a profound shift in emphasis and in direction.” SchoolCultureEducationOughtIntellectualAimInstitutionsProfoundAcademicEmphasisSchooling Author:Elliot W. Eisner
“There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay.” PeopleIdeasCultureResultsIndustryResearchOkayBlindMedicineTrialsSpotsPeculiarAcademicWithholdingBlind SpotsMisconduct Author:Ben Goldacre
“I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world.” WorldWayFormCultureInterestCriticsAcademicSurprisingClassifying Author:Marshall McLuhan
“In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture has been proved and refined by at least three centuries of academic dictates and highly developed taste. There are few violations of this taste, and there is exemplary architectural consistency. Paris has defined the aesthetics of a sophisticated urban culture.” Has BeensCultureThreeStreetsCenturyStyleTasteUnderstoodStructureArchitectureDefinedParisAcademicSophisticatedUrbanConsistencyAestheticsViolationRefinedExemplary Book:ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE? Source: ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?
“She had me at Sweet Valley High. Gay playfully crosses the borders between pop culture consumer and critic, between serious academic and lighthearted sister-girl, between despair and optimism, between good and bad. . . . How can you help but love her?” HelpingCultureGirlSeriousSweetGayDespairCrossesOptimismCriticsPopsConsumersBordersValleysAcademicGood And BadPop Culture Author:Melissa Harris-Perry