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
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
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I've been doing the academic side of music and the rock side of music in conjunction, basically, since I was in fourth… — Glenn Kotche Copy Share Image
I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
And I'm the first one to tell people to break the rules. But you can only break the rules once you know… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
The Ph.D. system was designed for a job in academics. And it works really well if you really want to be an… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
One of those disturbing tendencies in academic life is that there is a desire on the part of many in the name… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
When we faced a possibility here in New York of chemical and biological attack, three days after September 11, I called in… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
I take the academic education as seriously as the physical education. That's why I tell parents that the schools can't do it… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
When I was at seminary in my early twenties, one of my teachers said to me, "You're going to have to decide.… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises. — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in… — Al McGuire Copy Share Image
In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing.… — Ed Speleers Copy Share Image
In a way, it has been an advantage for me to be a woman because there is always some academic committee that… — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
“In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the… — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not… — Dave Ulrich Copy Share Image
But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such… — Teresa de Lauretis Copy Share Image
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic? — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that I've ever been drawn to the academic life as such. Theology has been a matter of survival for… — James Alison Copy Share Image
You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom. — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to… — Louise Slaughter Copy Share Image
I think that when people are at their best, when they are thinking, reflecting, cogitating, then they are doing philosophy. So I… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters… — Paul Nurse 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
Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math and provides students with the skills to creatively… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
You don't have to be musician to listen to music, and you don't have to be a filmmaker to go to the… — Dallas Campbell Copy Share Image
I believe that Harvard can have, and must have, a strong affirmative action program that reflects our commitment to equal opportunity while… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
