I hate that phrase "the real world." Why is an aircraft factory more real than a university? Is it?
Richard HugoTags: university real-world ivory-tower
Many are the scholars who make it their professional occupation to occupy themselves in this towering edifice of culture, exploring its nook and crannies, developing their responses, making their contributions here and there, and helping to hand it on to succeeding generations. For some the temptation proves irresistible to go yet farther and make this the concern of their lives, letting society go its own sorry way while they lock themselves away in this abiding, socially transcendent cultural stronghold, acquiescing in society while pursuing Bildung. As Rotterdam burns, they study Sanskrit verb forms.
Nicholas WolterstorffTags: society scholarship ivory-tower
I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do what he wants it to do. And a piano is just a piano. It's made out of so much wood and wires and little hammers and big ones, and ivory. While there's only so much you can do with it, the only way to find this out is to try; to try and make it do everything.
James BaldwinTags: life music breath everything relationship wood musician instrument piano ivory-tower wires
I've always thought academics should get a little slurry on their boots from time to time.
Karen LordTags: ivory-tower
What I mean is something like a closed circuit. Everybody on the same frequency. And after a while you forget about the rest of the spectrum and start believing that this is the only frequency that counts or is real. While outside, all up and down the land, there are these wonderful colors and x-rays and ultraviolets going on.
Thomas PynchonTags: opinion ivory-tower reinforcement
Who reflects too much will accomplish little.
Friedrich SchillerTags: inaction deeds contemplation ivory-tower
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