Academic Quotes

I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training.

You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we're third.

Merit should count more than academic background.

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the women's movement did not either.

I was always more of an academic than a jock.

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.

I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic.

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.

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style.

After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

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.

To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.

Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.

I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.