“Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.”
“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.”
“When one of Feuerbach’s friends attempts to get him an academic position, Feuerbach writes to him: “The more people make of me, the less I am, and vice versa. I am … something only so long as I am nothing.””
“Academe has become a multinational corporation, and scholars have become businessmen, mobile merchants on the make.”
“Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.”
“To offer one’s beauty for money to all comers is called prostitution. … So is it with wisdom. Those who offer it to all comers for money are known as sophists, prostitutors of wisdom.”
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Uma academia é uma instituição de educação terciária. O nome remonta à escola de filosofia de Platão, fundada c. 386 a.C. em Akademia, um santuário de Atena, a deusa da sabedoria e habilidade, ao norte de Atenas, Grécia. A Real Academia Espanhola define uma academia como uma sociedade científica, literária ou artística estabelecida com autoridade pública e como um estabelecimento de ensino, público ou privado, de natureza profissional, artística, técnica ou simplesmente prática.
