The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“To teachers, education is just a duty, but to students, it's their right.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I excelled in my academics. But, I also was a cheerleader and I ran track. — Rubi Rose Copy Share Image
“Half of what students learn in school is useful only during examinations.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“They are suspicious of humanism, nervous about too much style, and wary of public celebrations of the personal.” — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
“Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share Image
I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics. — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
I wasn't very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid. — Virat Kohli Copy Share Image
In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics. — William Standish Knowles Copy Share Image
“Make your education valuable. Apply what you learnt. Refuse to take the back seat and watch things happen. Join the change and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.” — Amanda Craig Copy Share Image
I'm always involved with the Aerospace Program and NASA and Goddard Space Flight Center. And if kids feel so inclined, they can… — Peter Cullen Copy Share Image
“I am successful because of my brains and my guts, put together, and I don't need some fancy-ass degree from a bunch… — Erin McCarthy Copy Share Image
The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that… — Donald E. Graham Copy Share Image
Sixth grade was definitely a hard year for me. I got left out because I didn't go to any of the parties… — Jordan Pruitt Copy Share Image
Growing up I did commercials and things like that, but nothing serious. As I got older, my family is really hardcore into… — Portia Doubleday Copy Share Image
“You had to be fundamentally stupid , I sometimes thought, to become the sort of academic specialist that hiring committees liked. You… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about… — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
“... I succeeded at math, at least by the usual evaluation criteria: grades. Yet while I might have earned top marks in… — Jennifer Ouellette Copy Share Image
“Having spent all my life among academics, I can tell you that hearing how wrong they area is about as high on… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“The goal of argumentation is to make a case so forceful (note the metaphor) that skeptics are coerced into believing it—they are… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I think her favorite thing about our . . . collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic… — Helen Oyeyemi 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
“The lives of scientists, considered as Lives, almost always make dull reading. For one thing, the careers of the famous and the… — Peter B. Medawar Copy Share Image
“But I know I didn't love school for school's sake. I had never really been what people call an 'academic' person, nor… — Liz Murray Copy Share Image
