Quotes by American 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. Charlie Munger american-universities teaching people I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world Clifford Geertz american-universities world thinking Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities. Jane Jacobs american-universities university primaries American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class. John Kenneth Galbraith american-universities president class I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia Julian Bond american-universities virginia teach Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that. Kurt Vonnegut american-universities university people The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian. Paul Achleitner american-universities body would-be I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum. Susan Sontag american-universities vacuums thinking I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities. Thomas Piketty american-universities university way