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Self in the Sea

2018-11-01 · 2,150 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Self in the Sea — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose." – C. Wright Mills, "The Sociological Imag
Self in the Sea — pen and ink drawing

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"To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose." – C. Wright Mills, "The Sociological Imagination" (1959).

"Numerous are the academic chairs, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Numerous and large are the lecture halls, but far from numerous the young men who genuinely thirst for truth and justice. Numerous are the wares that nature produces by the dozen, but her choice products are few." – Albert Einstein, “On Academic Freedom”, Ideas and Opinions (1954).

"Academe has become a multinational corporation, and scholars have become businessmen, mobile merchants on the make...Today's academic leftists are strutting wannabes, timorous nerds who missed the Sixties…

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