Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes

Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted with this squalid betrayal, one imagines he would have felt sick and oppressed.

Terry Eagleton

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• Imagine
• Felt
• Instruments
• University
• Educational
• Betrayal
• Oppressed

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• Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted with this squalid betrayal, one imagines he would have felt sick and oppressed.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Sick
  • Imagine
  • Felt