American Universities Quotations

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.

There's a lot wrong [with American universities]. I'd remove 3/4 of the faculty - everything but the hard sciences. But nobody's going to do that, so we'll have to live with the defects. It's amazing how wrongheaded [the teaching is]. There is fatal disconnectedness. You have these squirrelly people in each department who don't see the big picture.

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia

Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world

Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.

You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.

American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.