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Quotes from Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education — Roger Kimball

born 1953 United States

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The very concept of "ethnocentrism," which is used like a sledge-hammer to disparage the West, is a Western invention.

Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education (1990)

That is why the new schools of criticism have acquired a following: they promise to release us from the burden of study by showing that there is nothing after all to learn.

Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education (1990)

The institutionalization of the radical ethos in the academy has brought with it not only an increasing politicization of the humanities, but also an increasing ignorance of the humanistic legacy.

Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education (1990)

Since many older professors have themselves been the beneficiaries of the kind of traditional education they have rejected and are denying their students, it is the students who are the real losers in this fiasco.

Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education (1990)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Roger Kimball (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.