Best 143 quotes in «academic quotes» category

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.

Podcasting might be thought of as a form of academic gift

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.

Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect.

The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.

The landscape in academic science is traditionally male-dominated. Women didn't always see themselves there - there was a lack of role models, a lack of champions. It really helped when the Prime Minister appointed a gender-balanced cabinet. That was well-received and people realized that, if the Prime Minister could do it, why can't there be equity other places?

Then you have people coming up like Malcolm Bradbury, a relatively young writer who deals with the academic scene and deals with it, I think, brilliantly.

The obstacles facing academic economists are formidable, for tenure and professional advancement still depend to a large extent on a willingness to comply with and to work within the tenets of orthodox theory.

To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.

We are not getting rid of carriers any time soon. This is both because of their utility and also because of their role in Navy culture and in the defense-industrial complex. It is an academic debate.

We are selling ourselves very short by funneling our energies into what the traditional perception is of academic and monetary success.

We can not understand each other, if our sympathies are always safely tucked away; we can not understand each other, if our approaches are always academic or conventional; we can not understand each other, if we crawl back into our shells every time we see a worm across our path.

The aim of academic trade theory is to tell students, "Look at the model, not at how nations actually develop." So of all the branches of economic theory, trade theory is the most wrongheaded.

The reason academic disputes are so vicious is that so little is at stake.

There is a common misconception that intelligence is synonymous with IQ. "Intelligence Quotient" or IQ was originally built to predict the academic aptitude of schoolchildren, and is nothing more than a measure of the skills needed for academic success. Intelligence, however, is a much broader concept that encompasses a person's level of skill for any of a number of subjects.

There is no clear, commanding body of evidence that students' sustained use of multimedia machines, the Internet, word processing, spreadsheets and other popular applications has any impact on academic achievement.'

The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.

The sad thing about Trump is that everybody is secretly really relieved he got elected, of the people I know - the professional left and academic left.

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

They [free market policies] were never based on solid empirical and theoretical foundations, and even as many of these policies were being pushed, academic economists were explaining the limitations of markets for instance, whenever information is imperfect, which is to say always.

This is a large part of the academic profession: to make up complex, subtle arguments that are childishly ridiculous but are enveloped in sufficient profundity that they take on a kind of plausibility.

Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.

Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.

Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

Woodrow Wilson administration ended in tragedy, with his insistence on governing following his disabling stroke. I suspect President Wilson is often graded on a special curve, because many academic historians identify with him as one of their own.

Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society.

Academically fools exist too. They can pose the awkward problems within academic values than just the simple fools.

A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.

All the things we experience in life can be separated into two realms, the realm of the concept and the realm of the senses.

As the poets for the most part had their share of scholarship, it gave rise to a curious struggle between their natural inclination and their imaginary duty. When they sacrificed to the latter, they were praised by the learned; but by yielding to the former, they became the favourites of the people.

As students grow more and more accustomed to assuming materialism and naturalism in their academic work, the concept of creation by God gradually tends to become less real to them. It is not so much that any single finding undermines their faith; rather, the day-to-day practice of thinking in naturalistic terms about academic subjects makes it awkward to think differently when it comes to religion.

US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government.

Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle down for survival.

Don’t come and offer master's degree 'cos you’re unemployed. It’s not a solution to unemployment unless you want to be an academic. Get some skills and sharpen yourself; it will direct you to the right master's degree or professional cert.

...he had also acquired a peculiar academic quirk. During exams, he knew all the answers but wasn’t able to successfully map his answers to the right questions. So as soon as an exam started, he simply started putting his answers in the order in which he remembered them. Every time he moved to a new class, his parents made the new teachers aware of this snag. The teachers acknowledged it and reassured the parents that they’d match his answers against the appropriate questions.

His name was Ed. His nickname was Scrambled Ed. On leaving school he had taken a year out to decide what he wanted to study at University. The year passed and he still hadn't decided but went to University anyway. 'Academic' is defined as 'of, or relating to, institutionalized education and scholarship'. The same word, at the same time, also means 'having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed, unengaging or theoretical'. The latter definition seemed the most appropriate for Ed's university career which was a mash up of drinking, diving, surfing, kayaking and having his heart-broken. All washed down with a few pints. After three years of that he was awarded a second class joint honours degree which he put in the recycling bin and went in search of something that would make him feel better.

He said, 'You have to understand, I'm an academic. I'm not trained in dealing with masses of people. I found out through the school of hard knocks that it is better not to deal with masses of people. It's not that they don't deserve the information but they really react in very strange ways. They get panicky and excited, or over-excited, and it is so easy for academics to forget that. We're trained in math. We're trained in science. We're not trained in the masses.' He paused. 'The public is extremely wild,' he said, 'uncontrollably wild.' Then he shrugged his shoulders. 'You have to understand,' he said, 'I'm an academic.

If you hate to think, you are not different from some who is peeing on his academic certificates. The goal of education is to help you to think and lead.

If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating mental illness as a genetically influenced disorder of brain chemistry--has been a smashing success. Freud's ideas, which dominated the history of psychiatry for the past half century, are now vanishing like the last snows of winter.

I’m the guy who knows how you can hurt so much that your insides feel like they’re cut and bleeding.

I love you, Skye. You’re in my heart, in my head, under my skin. You’re my present and my future.