Quotes About Academics

I wasn't very good at school and couldn't get my head round it.

We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is it's fundamentally intractable in many ways, so you're not responsible for outcomes.

Aside from this, we should mention two concepts and two names that are still talking points for academics: the paradigm theory developed by Thomas S. Kuhn and the theory of discourse evolved by Michel Foucault. For the moment, it is unclear whether we should read these explorations as value-free ethnologies in the theoretical field or as critical exposure of discursive conformity.

Important names in the twentieth century included constitutional lawyers and academics such as Sir Ivor Jennings, Sir Kenneth Wheare, Geoffrey Marshall, O. Hood Phillips, and E. C. S.6 Wade and in the twenty-first century include Vernon Bogdanor, Rodney Brazier, and Peter Hennessy.7

Reading is the king of subjects. Math and science, writing and social studies -- they all depend on it. It's the most important thing children learn in school.

I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.

The man was to be pitied, a simplistic dinosaur incapable of comprehending the new dynamics of the educational suprasystem and the role of academics as change-agents.

At school I was a disaster academically but being involved in drama helped me to find another pathway into things.

I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.

For Ananya, It's Bollywood all the way. She was obsessed about it, I thought there was something wrong with her. She was good at academics, so I thought she would become a doctor like my both parents. But, when she got to class VI or so I knew she would be an actress.

When I was young, I never thought I was going to be a writer! I was academically orientated and active at sports, but I didn't have one creative bone in my body.

Both my parents are from academics.

I've had my successes and failures. I know many academics in my field loathe me. I've come to loathe them back, as it seems only polite to do so. But at heart it's absurd; we should band together against the big common enemies.

Since he had nothing better to do well in, he did well in school.

I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics.

There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.

I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.

I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.

I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.

I can tell you, because I serve on so many nonprofit boards - where half of us are academics and half of us are from Wall Street - that there's no CEO who understands at all a derivative. All they know is that somebody tells them in their organization, 'We've got a wonderful profit center.'

But in the real world-in which even academics perish-war often changes everything. The blood-drunk killer is rarely disarmed by the man who lives in books-or by the eternal adolescent clinging to the lie that all men want peace.

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.