Universities offer neither real money nor real power

Evidence

I must confess that I never had much taste for administrative responsibilities. Had that been my desire, I would have either gone into business, in pursuit of real money, or into government, in pursuit of real power. I would not have stayed in the university, where neither the money nor the power is real. The satisfactions of the scholarly life are of quite a different character. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 91 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: University autonomy is hollow because faculty lack control over budgets. — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 368; Academic life offers neither real money nor real power — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 91

Broader Connections

• Academic life offers neither real money nor real power #corroborates (1.00) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 91