A Quote by Condoleezza Rice
I'm actually - believe it or not, for an academic - an aural learner.
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There's actually a wonderful quote from Stanley Fish, who is sometimes very polemical and with whom I don't always agree. He writes, "Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right."
I'm a fast learner, and I believe in change, and I believe in growing, and I believe in moving forward and not staying in the same place.
I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because all of their contacts were very academic.
Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right.
In the mid-1960s, as hard to believe as it may be now, choosing to go into academic philosophy was not an imprudent career choice. There were lots of academic jobs in philosophy then.
Nobody in my family is in the show business, and none of my friends were. I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because all of their contacts were very academic.
The close observer soon discovers that the teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination, and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning.
For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.
[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.
I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.
I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?
Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect.
Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.'
Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.
But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.
At the commencements I attended, graduates were classified by their academic rankings. Outstanding academic performance was noted in the programs and awarded with special honors.
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