Quotes About Academics

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.

The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the sanctions removed.

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

Read,read,read! It is good and promotes better academics. It helps in all sorts of ways. So read no matter what!

I thought I was academically prepared for a major college, but I wasn't. Odessa gave me that preparation.

I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.

Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.

However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap.

Nothing annoys academics more than pointing out how little time they actually spend teaching students.

Historians have long been squeamish about acknowledging that General Washington, like many of the American founders, was a voracious land speculator. Few academics and high school history teachers want to risk their careers by suggesting to their students that the father of their country worked the same day job as Donald Trump.

Few academics and high school history teachers want to risk their careers by suggesting to their students that the father of their country worked the same day job as Donald Trump. Washington was a land developer, often described as the richest of his generation.

A person may be highly educated mentally

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

unmarried women make good academics because they've been neutered by too much knowledge and bookish pleasure. The world hands them a tiny domain it never cared about to begin with.

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

People are alive by means of the circulation of the spirit and the movement of the cosmos. Without those we couldn't even be alive. And the systems of our world—academics, science, education, medicine, culture, and civilization—all are manifestations of this spirit but also of the current myths or cosmology that we are living. And these are what we must go beyond.

I was very focused on school. No social life whatsoever.

My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over.

American culture is very good at interpersonal relationships and people skills, whereas we're incredibly adept at academics and straightforward 19th-century Victorian education.

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

It's pointless to talk to Fed members about economics because they are academics who believe in money-printing. Some of them believe they didn't print enough, and so with these kinds of people, it is like running to the pope. What do you want to tell them?

My sisters were very successful and confident. It was, 'Oh, you are Pippa's brother! Are you Catherine's brother?' And so I was automatically put into the top sports teams and academic sets.

Arjun came from a staid Pakistani family that prioritized academics and shunned alcohol. When he had moved into his dorm last week, his parents asked Jake, whom they knew was not a drinker, to watch over their son.