“To cite my own alma mater, it's shocking to me that Yale University can teach what it teaches at the Yale School of Environmental Studies and utterly fail to mirror those values in any way in its investment practices.” WaySchoolValuesMy OwnTeachPracticeStudyFailingMirrorsInvestmentEnvironmentalUniversityShockingYaleCitingAlma MaterYale University Author:Edward Norton
“As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian drifter [a supporter of the theory of continental drift]. Today my own students would dismiss with even more derision anyone who denied the evident truth of continental drift - a prophetic madman is at least amusing; a superannuated fuddy-duddy is merely pitiful.” TodayRememberMy OwnStudentsTheoryUniversityProfessorsDeniedGraduatesEvidentSupporterDistinguishedAustralianAmusingVisitingMadmenPropheticColumbiaPitifulGraduate StudentsContinentalDerisionDriftersColumbia University Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“I'd been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university. When I wanted to start acting again, I couldn't get a job, and that was really depressing. So, I realized, at that time, that I have to take responsibility for my own creativity.” WholeKidsWantedJobsActorsMy OwnActingResponsibilityCreativityUniversityI RealizedWhole LifeQuittingDepressingTaking ResponsibilityI QuitReally Depressing Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after the War did I see that we, like the Nazis, had committed atrocities... Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, my own bombing missions. And when I studied history after the War, I learned from reading on my own, not from my university classes, about the history of U.S. expansion and imperialism.” KnowsWorldWarReadingForceMy OwnClassAirUniversityCommittedMissionsWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IExpansionNaziImperialismBombingAtrocitiesAir ForceHiroshimaDresden Author:Howard Zinn
“My own feminist revolution evolved slowly, and traveled the world with me. To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist tests on the bookshelves at the university library in Jeddah, but I found them there. They filled me with terror. I understood they were pulling at a thread that would unravel everything. Now that I am older, I can see that feeling terrified is how you recognize what you need. Terror encourages you to jump, even when you don't know if you will ever land.” IfsKnowsWorldNeedsI CanIdeasFeelingsFoundMy OwnLandRevolutionUnderstoodTestsFilledLibraryUniversityTerrorFeministNo IdeaThis DayProfessorsThreadPullingTraveledTerrifiedLibrarianBookshelvesDissidents Author:Mona Eltahawy