Academic Quotes

460 quotes by 399 authors

I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility of activism and… — Chandra Talpade Mohanty
In my spiritual and academic journeys, I have learned that it is imperative for Christians to pursue truth at all costs. — Daniel B. Wallace
I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There… — Sarah Vowell
I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I… — Kerry Washington
My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best… — Alec Issigonis
Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional literacy. And while… — Daniel Goleman
As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions.… — Brad Sherman
The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments the political one,… — Adrian Mitchell
In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the… — Michael Ignatieff
When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since… — Harrison Birtwistle
We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that sooner or later… — John Desmond Bernal
The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the 'state'… — Stephen D. Cox
Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important freedom… — Donald Kennedy
As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere. — Ahmet Davutoglu
DURING THE PAST TWO TO THREE DECADES, we have acquired substantial evidence that most chronic diseases in America can be partially attributed to bad nutrition.… — T. Colin Campbell
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay. — Albert Einstein
Teacher cannot solve or heal all student stress. The teacher can be vigilant in trying to guide the child toward solutions;but the teacher's job in… — Michael Gurian
I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as… — Kate Moss
Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in… — David Lehman
Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things… — Elbert Hubbard

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