"All too often, academic departments defend their territory……" — Bruce Jackson

"All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification."

— Bruce Jackson

36 Quotes by Bruce Jackson

Bruce Jackson has 36 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and…
Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.
Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.
Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.
Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films…
First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring…
For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be…
It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the…
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose…
Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press:…

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Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend… — Derek Bok
A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken.… — John O. Brennan
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. — Samuel Butler
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be… — A. S. Byatt
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly… — A. S. Byatt
In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by… — Noam Chomsky
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community… — John Henrik Clarke
I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help… — Chelsea Clinton
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. — Juvenal
With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer… — Bill Gates
Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education. — Ken Robinson
School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For… — Drew Barrymore

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