Quotes About Academics

I'm not going to school just for the academics – I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.

I'm extremely proud of the women for this accomplishment. We're here to go to school and that's reflected by the women's work in the classroom. More times than not, the better schools in the country have student-athletes who are talented both in athletics and academics.

Male academics, Donny later read in one of the memos that cleared the interrogation enhancements, were the easiest subjects to get to rat out their friends. The theories for why that was varied.

When I was born, the Internet was barely two years old. It was the preserve of academics, used to connect dozens rather than billions of users. There weren't many who predicted it would transform our world.

Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.

The idea that academics should remain ''above the fray'' only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.

I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of the quality of academic work under review.

When I left Iowa, I definitely never wanted to stand in front of a group of academics again and see if they approved of me. I made up my mind to take my work to the actual reading public.

I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's.

I come from a background that stresses education more than anything.

I struggled academically in high school because it was hard to focus. It was hard to focus on those things that were other than artistic stuff.

I went to a private school, and I struggled academically. It was really disheartening to always be considered bad at that.

I struggled with math and had no interest in sports.

At school I was really heavily dyslexic, so I really struggled academically with reading and writing.

When you home study, you get a better education. I basically got to teach myself. Being naturally able to make my own opinions about the schoolwork I had to deal with, instead of being instructed under the tutelage of the teacher, was really nice academically.

I don't understand, Your Majesty." "Of course you don't; you academics!" Skarmak snarled. "All you do is sit in your towers, trying to think your way into a reality that exists only in your own minds, and then you judge the world as wrong because it does not conform to your impossible standards. I live in a real world, academic. And it's my real world that keeps pumping blood into your dead, idealistic one.

In this book we'll argue that the Egyptians in Tahrir Square, not most academics and commentators, have the right idea. In fact, Egypt is poor precisely because it has been ruled by a narrow elite that have organized society for their own benefit at the expense of the vast mass of people.

There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope.

Leaving aside the consideration that academics might always favour poetic difficulty—it makes them indispensable—

Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.

At various stages, ID cards have been necessary to protect us from terrorism, illegal immigration, and benefit fraud. But former home secretaries, academics and senior figures in the IT industry have lined up to demolish each individual argument.

Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece.

Academics are mostly professionals, involved in their work and other concerns of their own, with no particular interest in the workings of the ideological system.

I never really felt pushed at school or that I was struggling; it came naturally.