Quotes About Academic

We are selling ourselves very short by funneling our energies into what the traditional perception is of academic and monetary success.

I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.

My research was stimulating but solitary

In explaining his shift away from Maoist economics, Deng Xiao Ping, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, described his market-oriented changes as "socialism with Chinese characteristics." Today, American businesses, as well as the media and academic establishments that serve them, increasingly embrace what can best be described as "Chinese capitalism with American characteristics.

one professor told me that he struggled to get his students there to read even quite short books, and he increasingly offered them podcasts and YouTube clips they could watch instead. And that's Harvard.

Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.

The academic establishment. . . . argue over the diminution of Spanish because of the introduction of new Spanish words that are literally translations of England glish-- parquear, the park of "park," tales the plancelebratory of the more elegant estacionar which could be literally translated as "stationing.

What can I give for Your knowledge Of when to expand And when to contract— This instructed, more academic college Of when to act?

Although I myself have not been a huge follower of Shakespeare's dramatic nuances during my academic years, these plays that were penned down centuries ago loom large in every student's psyche, quite effortlessly.

Writer's block has probably existed since the invention of writing, but the term itself was first introduced into the academic literature in the nineteen-forties, by a psychiatrist named Edmund Bergler.

Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists.

If people are taught wrong, raised wrong, or haven't taken the Bible seriously enough, then they can go into academic error, emotional error, psychological error.

Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

I'm really into psychology, and I want to be a psych major.

Being in Oxford can be a bit like being on holiday - there's plenty of time spent in the pub.

As I got into middle school, I was really an outcast. But everybody was an outcast in middle school. I don't know who got the idea to put all kids going through puberty together in a school and give them academic elitism and competition and pit them against each other.

There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. If anything, we should be extending the school year.

I've been thinking that school, or certainly the traditional English public school model, is like a prison, in that you can't get out and it is hierarchical. As a result they have a lot of bullying. On the other hand if you mix ages and academic ability this is less of a problem.

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

I was talking to my dad, who's a neurosurgeon. He had this academic paper he wanted to publish. Journals take about 18 months to publish a paper, and he just wanted to get things up there.

Science should belong to scientists and not the publishers.

One of the biggest costs in the whole scientific publishing world is borne by the academic community, which is the peer review.

I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.