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Quotes about academia
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There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad. (Spader James)
If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets. (Spader James)
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy. (Spader James)
Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets. (Spader James)
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In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned. (Spader James)
“I'd like to thank the academy and I'd like to thank my mother and I'd like to thank my mother again, because I forgot to thank her last year.” (Spader James)
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