Academic Quote by Michael Crichton

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences…

— Joseph Stiglitz

“Interest in academic system-building is dead; however, greater are the efforts by which every educated person seeks to draw the guiding strand of his…

— Ivan Kireyevsky

The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can,…

— James Meade

The extent of our progress in the cultivation of knowledge is unlimited.

— William Godwin

In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of…

— Ted Sizer

“The ideal of an “all-round” education is out of date; it has been destroyed by the progress of knowledge.”

— Bertrand Russell

Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.

— Anonymous

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

— Mark Twain

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

— Ken Robinson

The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes.

— James G. Frazer

When the fields of human knowledge are so various and so vast as is the case in our day, the utmost that can be…

— Henry Parry Liddon

“The ultimate aim of assimilating knowledge is to create new ideas or gain wisdom.”

— Pearl Zhu