How motivations work

So the government comes to academic institutions to be able to say, here we have an independent, reliable, objective organisation with scientific rigor, and some degree of depth of analysis but then as soon as they bully you into saying what they want, you dont get any more consultancies, you have been written off from that category...they want you to be independent, but they want you to say what they want (Lecturer, New Wire Univ, 1997)

Cited in: Academic Capitalism, 1997, John Hopkins Univ Press



The systematic recovery of the social contexts of urban education should begin to provide answers to: are there forms of human community, ways of producing, thinking, believing, doing and knowing which are revealed through the study of education and which might distinguishes cities from non cities and from each other? are there educational forms, arrangements, policies, practices which developed in cities and which distinguish urban educational forms from rural or agrarian ones? Are forms of educational authority different in urban areas?

The city should be explored as a specialist environment, for the cultivation of particular social, political and economic qualities in its inhabitats; nurturing national and global perspective and constituting unique environment for the cultivation of individuality and creativity.