Democracy Quote by Jane Mayer

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

— Henry A. Kissinger

“The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small”

— Henry Kissinger

Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.

— Wallace Sayre

“libertarians needed to mobilize youthful cadres by influencing academia in new ways. Traditional gifts to universities, he warned, didn’t guarantee enough ideological control. Instead,…

— Jane Mayer

Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were entitled to…

— Ellen Willis

“If the 1970s had been the time of radical theories, then the 1980s were the time when politics began increasingly to replace professionalism in…

— David Horowitz

The demise of higher education as a public good is also evident in light of the election of a number of right-wing politicians who…

— Henry Giroux

Public universities are the lifeblood of modern democracies.

— Sanjaya Baru

“To say that our universities now engage in systematic miseducation and indoctrination would be an understatement. All that matters from an academic point of…

— David Horowitz

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

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

Personally, I am uneasy about the notion of "a politically engaged university," for reasons I wrote about over 30 years ago, at the height…

— Noam Chomsky