Illiteracy Quote by Guy Davenport

“Getting degree only makes someone literate to the society or the nation. But sometime their uncultured acts make them illiterate. Cause they have uneducated…

— Salman Aziz

“Great institutions are built by illiterates and mismanaged by the celebrated academic class.”

— Anthony Ugochukwu O. Aliche

Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes…

— Richard Rorty

“The institutionalization of the radical ethos in the academy has brought with it not only an increasing politicization of the humanities, but also an…

— Roger Kimball

“Mundane education is regrettably prosaic," - Jace Lightwood-Herondale”

— Cassandra Clare

“I was strictly a college-ruled man myself, having no talent for illustration and a microscopic scrawl that made wide-ruled seem roomy. The blank pages…

— Rachel Cohn

“[...] it is rare for a man who teaches to know his subject thoroughly; for if he studies it as he ought, he has…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them (...) you bring them out triumphantly, and…

— Aldous Huxley

“Great education defies structure because it is always (always!) individualized, personalized, interactive, nimble, responsive and inspired.”

— Oliver DeMille

“What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.”

— Thomas Sowell

“how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They’re people—and afraid the rest of the world will find out.”

— Daniel Keyes

“What's more, a lot of people who harbor an intolerance for complexity see it not as a character flaw but a cognitive virtue. That's…

— Meghan Daum