Academic Quote by Edward Snowden

While the universities are increasingly corporatized and militarized, their governing structures are becoming more authoritarian, faculty are being devalued as public intellectuals, students are…

— Henry Giroux

My fear is that many institutions will eventually alter how they treat people who refuse to self-track. There are all sorts of political and…

— Evgeny Morozov

Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.

— Neil Steinberg

Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as a public…

— Henry Giroux

When a profession is protected by academic freedom and tenure, it tends to turn inward. To a large extent that's good.

— Martha C. Nussbaum

No institutions in modern society are better equipped to catalyze the necessary transition to a sustainable world than colleges and universities. They have access…

— David W. Orr

That is the key strength of independent academia: we can speak up in spite of corporate or government interests.

— Zeynep Tufekci

You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up…

— John Lennon

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

— Alan Dershowitz

Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars.…

— Katherine Anne Porter

“And whether or not the educators who are trying to raise up America's students can actually set and meet higher academic standards, our cultural…

— Tony Danza

We must protect each other against the attacks of those self-appointed watchdogs of patriotism now abroad in the land who irresponsibly pin red labels…

— Joel Henry Hildebrand