Quotations: Academia

And I did think to myself, what's a history doctorate? Anyone with half a brain can eat the fruits of a library for a few months and then crap out a long glistening thesis. It doesn't involve thought, or calculation or work. Not real work. Just pretentious dilettante posturing.

[The point of view that any event preceding one's birth is irrelevant and unworthy of occupying brain cells] is a recurring lab experiment every spring here at Kent State U: "Why do people, like, have to drag all that up every frigging year? It has no meaning anymore!" In letters to the campus rag from trendy-clothed, business and fashion majors (or majorettes) with "Friends" haircuts who can actually write with Valley Girl accents.