Academic Quote by Robert Neelly Bellah

Academic culture is not merely indifferent to teaching, it is actively hostile to it.

— Charlie Sykes

Our culture's tolerance wears thin when religion intrudes on the public discourse... Our schools, courtrooms, and libraries set the tone for the entire society.…

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often made the…

— Tony Attwood

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

You can somehow get access to what is perceived to be a better school by either being religious or appearing to be religious. That…

— Alice Roberts

We feel that prejudice should not be tolerated; it really has no place.

— Jin

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When I was an undergraduate, the censors attacked the university from without. Now, they are entrenched in the faculties and administrations themselves. Then, the…

— David Horowitz

“In some quarters, and particularly among those who comment on these matters in in political circles or in the media or the blogosphere or…

— Stefan Collini

Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.

— Walter Bagehot

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

I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority…

— Richard M. Nixon