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
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
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
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
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
The landscape in academic science is traditionally male-dominated. Women didn't always see themselves there - there was a lack of role models,… — Kirsty Duncan Copy Share Image
If a manager asks an academic consultant what to do and that consultant answers, then the consultant should be fired. No academic… — James G. March Copy Share Image
Yes, the academic world is screwed up, and there is nothing you can do about it. But don't worry about that. Just… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding… — Elliott Colla 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
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
In a post 9/11 world, in which the uncritical essentializing of people from the "Third-World" has been legitimized; Iraq and Afghanistan have… — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
The Common Core State Standards Initiative is an important step forward in ensuring that the United States remains competitive in the global… — Kimberlee Green Copy Share Image
If the students don't want to learn about evolution, they shouldn't be in the course. A biology course that teaches creationism is… — Joan Wallach Scott 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
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
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
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 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
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 think people are surprised when I string two sentences together. But I had a fiercely academic upbringing. — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
In 'Pictures from an Institution,' Randall Jarrell was able to transcend the academic novel by simply ignoring it, writing a comedy with… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work. — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting. — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in… — Philip Zimbardo 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
