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There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing that parents need to be able to evaluate, and students themselves, when they make a selection.

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.

If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

I don't think culture is something you can describe.

Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.