Academic Routine Quotes

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

When other students would study after classes, I would go out again to work out and then study in the night.

It was important to my father that I go to Hebrew school three days a week for two or three hours each time. To me, it felt endless. Think about it from a kid's perspective: I would finish my normal school day, then get on a bus and go to another school. That was tough to take.

Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing.

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

It keeps me from getting too overwhelmed about the industry when I can just do my math homework.

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.

Afternoon classes - that evil invention!