American life Quote by Michael Lewis

“College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.”

— Robert M. Hutchins

“It is out of character for a country that prides itself on intellectual freedom to put the education of its young in the hands…

— David Kelley

“Students, well intentioned or otherwise, are poorly served by the idea that students and teachers are intellectual and social equals and that a student’s…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.”

— Jack London

“It is somewhat ironic to have us so deeply disturbed over a program where race is an element of consciousness, and yet to be…

— Derrick Bell

“the school’s administration favored athletes, making excuses for them while coming down hard on others for lesser offenses.”

— Sue Klebold

“For more than a half-century, anti-intellectualism has had a pretty good run in presidential politics. In fact, Republicans would never have gotten where they…

— Peter Beinart

“You never stop to think how the history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action. You never stop to think…

— Michael Eric Dyson

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I…

— Willie Mays

“It is somewhat ironic to have us so deeply disturbed over a program where race is an element of consciousness, and yet to be…

— Harry A. Blackmun

“What used to be a jocular and usually benign ridicule of intellect and formal training has turned into a malign resentment of the intellectual…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“I don’t agree that you, when you become students at colleges, have to be coddled and protected from different points of view,” he said.…

— Milo Yiannopoulos