Academics Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“We must connect students to books that force them to pay attention, to think and wonder, to imagine and believe, and then read for…

— Peggy Kittle

“In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult…

— Henry Miller

“I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

“...learning is not the consequence of teaching or writing, but rather of thinking...so a playful, provocative, unclear but stimulating book could actually be more…

— Brian McLaren

“The most striking fact about contemporary university students is that there is no longer any canon of books which forms their taste and imagination...This…

— Allan Bloom

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in…

— Martin Luther

“I was there to get a Ph.D. in English literature. That's not true. I was there to read a lot of books and to…

— Marisa de los Santos

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that…

— Donna Tartt

“Students exit history textbooks without having developed the ability to think coherently about social life. Even”

— James W. Loewen

Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but…

— Neil Postman

“There have always been literate ignoramuses who have read too widely and not well. The Greeks had a name for such a mixture of…

— Mortimer J. Adler

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

— Petrarch