“Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few hardened prisoners are more or less surreptitiously continuing their real vocations.” ShouldRealProduceCriticismPrisonUniversityPrisonerContinuingVocationHardenedCounterfeitCounterfeit Money Author:Randall Jarrell
“The university is well structured, well tooled, to turn out people with all the sharp edges worn off, the well-rounded person. The university is well equipped to produce that sort of person, and this means that the best among the people who enter must for four years wander aimlessly much of the time questioning why they are on campus at all, doubting whether there is any point in what they are doing, and looking toward a very bleak existence afterward in a game in which all of the rules have been made up, which one cannot really amend.” PeopleYearsWellsMeanPersonsHas BeensMadeTurnsGamesExistenceDoubtFourProduceUniversityEdgesWanderFour YearsQuestioningWornCampusBleakWell RoundedSharp EdgesQuestioning Why Author:Mario Savio
“The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the major book reviews, they were able to pose as the vanguard of American culture when they were so obsessed with the two Joes--McCarthy and Stalin--that they were to produce only two artists, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, who left town.” WritingArtTwoImportantBookAbleLastsArtistCultureLiteraturePoliticsLeftKnownNew YorkProduceMajorsConnectionsTownsUniversityAccessObsessedReviewsPublishingAmerican CultureManhattanPhilipVanguardBook ReviewJoe Mccarthy Book:God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays Source: God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays
“If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense of superfluous aloofness from the world of real men who do the world's real work, then it has harmed that individual.” IfsMenWorldRealIndividualEffortProduceTasteIntellectualTrainingUniversityArroganceIdlenessRefinedBarrenSuperfluousReal MenReal WorkDistasteAloofnessIntellectual Arrogance Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.” HumansTodayLiteratureHuman BeingsProduceBlueUniversityProfessorsAmerican Universities Book:Why Sinclair Lewis got the Nobel prize Source: Why Sinclair Lewis got the Nobel prize
“We are in the presence of a recruiting drive systematically and deliberately undertaken by American business, by American universities, and to a lesser extent, American government, often initiated by talent scouts specially sent over here to buy British brains and preempt them for service of the U.S.A. ... I look forward earnestly to the day when some reform of the American system of school education enables them to produce their own scientists so that, in an aimiable free trade of talent, there may be adequate interchange between our country and theirs, and not a one-way traffic.” WayLooksMayCountryGovernmentSchoolScienceBrainTalentProduceScientistTradeUniversityBritishOur CountryOne WayReformTrafficAdequateFree TradeAmerican GovernmentSchool EducationInterchangeAmerican BusinessAmerican Universities Author:Lord Hailsham
“Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.” PeopleHas BeensStatesLeftGenerationsMediaProduceCapitalismUniversitySelfishWelfareFree MarketMantrasWelfare StateSelfish People Author:Dennis Prager