"The reason that university politics is so vicious is that the stakes are so small."
— Henry Kissinger

January 1, 1970

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The reason that academic politics is so vicious is that the stakes are so small. — Mentioned as an "old saw" in Teachers for Our Nation's Schools (1990) by John I. Goodlad