Quotes About Academic

Here's a tip more academic authors could heed: don't make "originality" your only goal. If there is one common failure in letters from first-time authors it's the suggestion that nothing like this manuscript has ever been attempted. If you've found a dark corner of the field to mine as your own, you might have lucked into something valuable and overlooked

Author points out in Woodrow Wilson the flipside of the positive we might call big picture vision. He observes that as college president Wilson resorted to the language of a national crusade when he met resistance in a local, academic issue.

Extreme specialization has been the greatest disaster of the modern academic world. It has created narrow Mandarins, ignorant of the universal nature of reality, incapable of connecting concepts from different fields to bring everything together in one ultimate, unified subject. The AC is everything the academic world is not. It's about connecting everything. It demands that people be generalists, not the most narrow, blinkered specialists.

Irinistic motivation can help people attain academic success and possess themselves with great depth of knowledge.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

La retórica se desvaneció en el mundo académico durante el siglo xix, cuando los científicos sociales descartaron la idea de que un individuo pudiese enfrentarse a las fuerzas inexorables de la historia.

general public distrusts academic expertise as soon as it affects real-world topics

hacking the website of an academic journal to change the referees' reports.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

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My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.

Men do really dumb things. We see weapons of mass destruction where there are none. We over-emphasize sports. We place athletic achievement ahead of academic achievement. We spoil and pamper child athletes and then complain when they act spoiled and pampered as adults.

In English, I never did the reading when it was assigned. If a paper was due on Friday, my attitude was, read half the book on Tuesday, the second half on Wednesday, and write the paper Thursday night. Sometimes, I'd just read the Cliff's Notes and skip the book altogether.

As an urban school superintendent, I learned that hiring, training, and investing in professionals to support our children's social and emotional development, meeting academic expectations for students with special needs, and finding more minutes of instruction in the week, not fewer, mattered.

I hadn't realized quite how intense the first few years of grad school would be. When you're being assigned 40 books a week... there's not much room for novels.

What is the role of an academic - no matter what they're teaching - within political debate? It has to be that they make issues more complicated. The role of the academic is to make everything less simple.

The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

One of the first courses I ever taught at Dartmouth was on the Bible as literature.

When you're growing up with a learning disability, it shoots your confidence and belief in what you can accomplish academically; it really damages it.

The debate in Australia over China has long been framed by a number of influential essays by Hugh White, a former bureaucrat and academic. White's thesis is summed up by the title of one of his books, The China Choice, which argued that Australia's refusal

Taylor and I both pride ourselves on having escaped that collapsed circus tent of epistemology—those acres of canvas under which many of our colleagues still thrash aimlessly about.

Culinary science? You elected culinary science? That's the most brainless class ever. -Rose to Christian

The chief fault of most academic theoreticians of postmodernism, as Gross and Levitt emphasize, lies in never applying perspectivism to themselves — i.e., in holding an oxymoronic position that always implies "everything is relative except my own dogmas." I do not make that error habitually, and I like to think I never make it at all. (I sure hope not, but as a Cosmic Schmuck, I assume I have slipped into it on occasion.*)