Education Quote by Terry Eagleton

Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the…

— Terry Eagleton

“The humanities the core of the university. She may be an outsider, but if she were asked to name the core of the university…

— J.M. Coetzee

“What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role of academia…

— Terry Eagleton

“When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial social role.…

— Terry Eagleton

“Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But there is no university without humane inquiry, which means…

— Terry Eagleton

In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in…

— Terry Eagleton

In the humanities and social sciences, and in fields like journalism and economics and so on, people have to be trained to be managers,…

— Noam Chomsky

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition.…

— Camille Paglia

There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding themselves with…

— Elliott Colla

What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced…

— C. JoyBell C

“Joyfully we undertake our daily work.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita