Academic Quote by Audre Lorde

Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.

— Carl Sagan

Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Earning an education is not the same as gaining a skill set.

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our…

— Adam Gopnik

The skills gap is a reflection of what we value.

— Mike Rowe

The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.

— Adam Davidson

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

— W. Edwards Deming

Academicians get nowhere.

— Marilyn Ferguson

In SW1 you don't really need survival skills, you just exist.

— Georgia Toffolo

There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't.

— Mark Thomas

However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap.

— Mary Beard

But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson