In some sense our aim ought to be to convert the school from an academic institution into an intellectual one. That shift… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which… — Vernon L. Smith Copy Share Image
Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject… — Brian Crozier Copy Share Image
I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead,… — Lapo Elkann Copy Share Image
Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Yes, the academic world is screwed up, and there is nothing you can do about it. But don't worry about that. Just… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
If a manager asks an academic consultant what to do and that consultant answers, then the consultant should be fired. No academic… — James G. March Copy Share Image
If you're in the business world, that's what's expected: You should go bust and then start again on something else. So it's… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will… — Nel Noddings Copy Share Image
We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about… — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly.… — Krishnananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
The Common Core State Standards Initiative is an important step forward in ensuring that the United States remains competitive in the global… — Kimberlee Green Copy Share Image
Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement,… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
My style is neither casual nor academic, it's somewhere in between. For me, that's the best way to be succinct and informative… — Joel McIver Copy Share Image
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I want you to have all the academic freedom you want as long as you wind up saying the bible account (of… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a… — Pallam Raju Copy Share Image
Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
I didn't have friends. No one talked to me. I used to go to the Wyndcroft School (nationally recognized for academic excellence)… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“All the things we experience in life can be separated into two realms, the realm of the concept and the realm of… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
patriarchal academic hierarchies in science and technology are now overspecialized and abstract, perhaps because they have systematically excluded women, as well as… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local… — Rene Redzepi Copy Share Image
No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It's a good thing that we're protected by tenure and academic freedom, but we should realize that it creates a risk of… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“If you hate to think, you are not different from some who is peeing on his academic certificates. The goal of education… — Israelmore ayivor Copy Share Image
The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions,… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
“Maybe Duke was just the kind of person you don’t keep in your life, but the kind of person that changes your… — Stephanie Witter Copy Share Image
