We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.
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Eighteen months tops, everybody's gone. The accomplishments you've already achieved will fade away like butter in the sun. In the university world, if you pause for a while, and two or three years later, you say we can start again, you're farther back than you were when the whole enterprise began.Stanley Fish
Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.
Stanley Fish
Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.
Stanley Fish
I am in favor of affirmative action and gay and lesbian rights, he responded. But I do not support abortion rights.
Stanley Fish
It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.
Stanley Fish
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