Concern Quote by Noam Chomsky

What is the role of an academic - no matter what they're teaching - within political debate? It has to be that they make…

— Mary Beard

There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical.

— Zephyr Teachout

“No legitimate field of study should be suppressed because of academic politics.”

— J.C. Ryan

There are thousands of experts, creators, and practitioners around the world who have valuable knowledge to share but aren't traditional professors.

— Gagan Biyani

Academics are, on average, pussies.

— David Buss

The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be processed in…

— Mario Savio

Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture…

— Steven Pinker

Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.

— Evan Sayet

Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to…

— Simon Sinek

Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded…

— Nathan Myhrvold

“An ideological movement is a collection of people many of whom could hardly bake a cake, fix a car, sustain a friendship or a…

— Kenneth Minogue

Academicians get nowhere.

— Marilyn Ferguson