Most academic battles involve space or faculty…

When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching…

— Derek Bok

The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The…

— Roland Barthes

Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.

— Debbie Stabenow

Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.

— Karl Jaspers

And I'm the first one to tell people to break the rules. But you can only break the rules once you know what the…

— Tim Gunn

Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has long been…

— James Elkins

“In the end, ethical interpretation of the Bible means to think critically about how our practices of textual engagement might help us to become…

— Walter Brueggemann

An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is…

— James Paul Gee

Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the…

— Dean Spade

Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is…

— Joan Robinson

The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally…

— C. Everett Koop

Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to…

— Felix Bloch

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

— A. S. Byatt