"Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and……" — Ambrose Bierce
"Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught."
More Academe Quotes
- And seek for truth in the groves of Academe. — Horace
- S. J. Keyser is a shrewd and insightful observer of academe. His experiences in three universities, Brandeis, UMass, and MIT,… — Paul E. Gray
- The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long. — John Milton
- For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not… — Arthur Peacocke
- A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of… — Camille Paglia
- That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that… — Will Self
- It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls… — Paul Tsongas
- [Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences… — Malcolm Muggeridge
- Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but… — John Clute