I excelled in my academics. But, I also was a cheerleader and I ran track. — Rubi Rose Copy Share Image
“To teachers, education is just a duty, but to students, it's their right.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“To sustain the value of education, students should be respected as much as the teachers.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics. — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
“Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share Image
“They are suspicious of humanism, nervous about too much style, and wary of public celebrations of the personal.” — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
You have to be equal at both - great at football and great at dedicating yourself to the academics at Notre Dame.… — Justin Tuck Copy Share Image
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.” — Amanda Craig Copy Share Image
“The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“You had to be fundamentally stupid , I sometimes thought, to become the sort of academic specialist that hiring committees liked. You… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
Sixth grade was definitely a hard year for me. I got left out because I didn't go to any of the parties… — Jordan Pruitt Copy Share Image
Today we have a weakness in our education process in failing to understand the natural associations between the disciplines. We tend to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Growing up I did commercials and things like that, but nothing serious. As I got older, my family is really hardcore into… — Portia Doubleday Copy Share Image
The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that… — Donald E. Graham Copy Share Image
“I am successful because of my brains and my guts, put together, and I don't need some fancy-ass degree from a bunch… — Erin McCarthy Copy Share Image
I'm always involved with the Aerospace Program and NASA and Goddard Space Flight Center. And if kids feel so inclined, they can… — Peter Cullen Copy Share Image
“The goal of argumentation is to make a case so forceful (note the metaphor) that skeptics are coerced into believing it—they are… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“For every group, malevolence is always somewhere else. Maybe we understand at this point in history that it can occur at night… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“... I succeeded at math, at least by the usual evaluation criteria: grades. Yet while I might have earned top marks in… — Jennifer Ouellette Copy Share Image
“Having spent all my life among academics, I can tell you that hearing how wrong they area is about as high on… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“The lives of scientists, considered as Lives, almost always make dull reading. For one thing, the careers of the famous and the… — Peter B. Medawar Copy Share Image
“The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“I think her favorite thing about our . . . collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“But I know I didn't love school for school's sake. I had never really been what people call an 'academic' person, nor… — Liz Murray Copy Share Image
