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University Quotes by Terry Eagleton
- Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted…
- If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research…
- The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.
- Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.
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