A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom. . . . [A] mordant… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
I took art courses, only in the sense that I was able to - I took art classes, which were fun, which… — Robert Barry 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
While the universities are increasingly corporatized and militarized, their governing structures are becoming more authoritarian, faculty are being devalued as public intellectuals,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low… — David Dreman Copy Share Image
Our feelings alone don't change what happens with the police, what happens in jail, what happens when someone tries to go to… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
Maybe I was accepted to Harvard only because of my tennis skills, since I definitively had no great academic achievements. I was… — Jorge Paulo Lemann Copy Share Image
There are some people that say I need to be more academic in my teaching, I need to be more disciple developing… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
One thing should be put firmly. Where people have commented on that novel [The Paper Men], they generally criticize the poor academic,… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
There were only 170 neurologists in Britain then and, whether spoken or unspoken, there was this insidious feeling. How can Bannister, a… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
“As students grow more and more accustomed to assuming materialism and naturalism in their academic work, the concept of creation by God… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people… — Peter Hain Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to be an academic. You don’t have to be anything. Don’t force it. Feel your way, and don’t stop… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I was very, very unhappy with even the so-called very elite schools. The one thing I've always done every day with my… — Marva Collins Copy Share Image
School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For just pennies… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
When we talk about inequality in America, the great health centers being able to care for people who don't have means is… — Maria Bartiromo Copy Share Image
You have to understand, in the current academic climate, Intelligent Design is like leprosy or heresy in times past. To be tagged… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
“Most intellectual training focuses on analytical skills. Whether in literary criticism or scientific investigation, the academic mind is best at taking things… — Richard J. Borden Copy Share Image
Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days of increased… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble,… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
It is fashionable in some academic circles to exercise scholarly criticism of the Bible. In so doing, scholars place themselves above the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are… — John Updike Copy Share Image
My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“[In high school] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested… — Allan McLeod Cormack Copy Share Image
Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture.… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
One demonstrable effect this type of work can have is in its viral promulgation. Take Kathy Acker for example: her work exists… — Davis Schneiderman Copy Share Image
The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
With a weak and rotting core, you don't have much of a foreign policy. You're discounted at the negotiating table, economically and… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
I think the WikiLeaks releases furnish us with an opportunity to observe the upper reaches of the American status hierarchy in all… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
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