He claimed that I promoted a number of my interests in the classroom. But none of what he talked about in the book took place on campus.

Whatever time I promote outside of the classroom toward activism is my own business. I did oppose the war in Iraq. I would do it again.

We don't know if we're going to be performing on a stage or a classroom.

To criticize the Middle East would not have made any sense because the speech was about being an academic in the United States, not the Middle East.

You're not going to learn the most tangible, applied processes in a book, or a classroom, or a lecture. It's not rocket science. All you need is good eyesight, a strong back, and good shipboard balance.

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.