Academic Responsibility Quotes

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.

Academic freedom carries with it the right to heresy as well as the right to restate and defend the traditional views.

My parents were very firm about me always getting my homework done.

The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.

Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and, in large part, untrue. His whole professional activity is circumscribed by the prejudices, vanities and avarices of his university trustees, i.e., a committee of soap-boilers, nail manufacturers, bank-directors and politicians. The moment he offends these vermin he is undone. He cannot so much as think aloud without running a risk of having them fan his pantaloons.

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university I felt a responsibility to respond to all of the inquiries about the Islamic world.

I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.

In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action.

I need to complete my homework on time.

If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal.

Thing is, I wasn't in the library, didn't study too much, didn't get the best grades, but honestly, I didn't party a lot either. I stayed in a lot.

It is very humbling to receive the Fields Medal. The words of a Fields Medallist carry a lot of weight within mathematics - for instance, in framing future directions of research - which means that I have to watch what I say more carefully now!

As to whether those who fit the common meaning of the term "intellectual" should act in the manner that [ Edward] Said prescribes, that's another question. Needless to say, I agree with him that they should, and that they commonly do not.

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain "above the fray" only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.

Listen to your parents, do your homework and listen to your teachers. Those are the real heroes.

I was a very conscientious student.

Do your homework and stand your ground.

First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left.

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

In high school, you at least have to get up at a reasonable hour and show up at places on time. College, on the other hand, gave me the sense that I could complete major assignments at 2 A.M. without suffering any repercussions, along with the erroneous idea that in real life, things started after one in the afternoon.

I might have skipped class, but I didn't miss any lessons.