What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades.… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that… — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the… — Carroll Quigley 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
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
I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
“In the business world it's not what you know, it's who you know. In the academic world it's not who you know,… — Anonymous 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
I've written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
In the academic setting, you take (typically) lonely, interesting middle-aged men and beautiful, intelligent young women, and everybody's motivations for display and… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic,… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
It was inspiring to learn of the new Bachelor of Environmental Studies Program, and I congratulate you for it. Singapore is geographically… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The phrase 'academic freedom' is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
But whatever the consensus on the EMH, I know of no serious academic, professional money manager, trained security analyst, or intelligent individual… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
For many years I had been deeply identified with thinking and the painful, heavy emotions that had accumulated inside. My thought activity… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
There is too much ideological conformity in gender studies. The true-believers fashion the theories, write the textbooks and teach the students. When… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
“There is a girl behind the desk in blue uniform, with dark red hair, spread fanlike from her head in lacquered splendour;… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, the metamorphosis came too late to permit me to go back to graduate school. And thus I escaped indoctrination. Whatever I… — Judith Rich Harris Copy Share Image
I drifted into a career in academic philosophy because I couldn't see anything outside the academy that looked to be anything other… — Julian Young Copy Share Image
I wonder whether I might have meant "terrify us" but perhaps as well there was a less than conscious effort to show… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
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
US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government. — Ignacio Chapela Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact student riots of one sort or another, protests against the order that is, kicks against college and… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries.… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise. — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking about education. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Universities have failed in their function of the pursuit of academic excellence by having dumbed down classes and granting degrees to students… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science… — Dallas Campbell Copy Share Image
I decided that after returning to the US to pursue an academic career I would eventually study the life of Ho Chi… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The… — Ralph Allen Copy Share Image
Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to… — Thomas S. Power Copy Share Image
There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career.… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
My dad wanted me to go down a more academic route. He is very much about sticking to the rule book and… — Rita Ora Copy Share Image
