Academia Quote by Agnes Smedley

Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but…

— Neil Postman

When I went to the Studio Museum in Harlem, there was a type of freedom that existed where I didn't have to think about…

— Kehinde Wiley

I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down,…

— Anonymous

“…philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilization…but if professors can truly wield this fatal power, may it…

— Isaiah Berlin

Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every year from…

— Yukio Mishima

“For anything that smacked of a classroom or of being lectured to—“professor” was one of his bad words, and he was proud of never…

— Michael Wolff

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their…

— Gary Hamel

Students: did you hated when your Professors gave exams, and some of the books on the class reading list they actually wrote.

— JOHN REYES

After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one was ever…

— Irving Kristol

“Thousands of persons, many of whom never darkened the door of a college, have learned to read books that most of our college graduates…

— Stringfellow Barr