Academic Bubble Quotes

Too often what are called ‘educated’ people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those whose whole careers have been spent in ivy-covered buildings, insulated by tenure, can remain adolescents into their golden retirement years.

There's something awful about Oxford, I think. It's such a little ghetto.

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.

The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.

I grew up on Harvard Square and I watched 50-year old men walking around with green book bags slung over their shoulders going for their fourth PhD, never having left the world of academia to alleged reality.

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.