Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or termi...nal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Looking in on our academic circles was the usual quota of P.H.T.'s, the Putting Husband Throughs, young women who with high hopes ...work for years to earn money for their husbands' doctorates. Year after year they slave on, often forced to forgo bearing children until it is too late, sacrificing pleasures and recreation for the pot of gold at the end of the gaily alluring rainbow--a doctorate pinned on a man who has renounced the amenities and comforts of life, already the victim of occupational desiccation when he gets his medal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics--a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power-...-the women's programs are just as doomed as the men's are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that's the kind of success for women's sports that we want.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemoti...onal deadness of his academic prose; and is always coining newer, deader words with a natural preference for Greek formations. The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jok...es or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most young black females learn to be suspicious and critical of feminist thinking long before they have any clear understanding of... its theory and politics.... Without rigorously engaging feminist thought, they insist that racial separatism works best. This attitude is dangerous. It not only erases the reality of common female experience as a basis for academic study; it also constructs a framework in which differences cannot be examined comparatively.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future hinge on suc...h people and such decisions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
During the latency years, American children need experiences that promote academic talents, a sense of responsibility, and most im...portant, a belief that they can attain the goals valued by self and community. They need reassurance that these goals are attainable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As you consider whether to move a child into formal academic training, remember that we want our children to do more than just lea...rn how to read and write; we want them to learn in such a way that they become lifelong readers and writers. If we push our children to start learning these skills too far ahead of their own spontaneous interest and their capacity, we may sacrifice the long-range goal of having them enjoy such pursuits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is co...mmonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »