If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs.
There's a certain kind of academic that comes to Washington and can't survive. They're the ones starting each sentence with 'The economic model says.'
What saved me from total academic failure and overwhelming ennui, was my love of libraries and all they encompass.
Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.
Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
My tryst with theatre began in 1968, after the last day of school in that academic year.
Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.
The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger.
What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.
At the end of the day, I'm a very boring academic, bogged down with academia and structure and delivering an education.
In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.
When a profession is protected by academic freedom and tenure, it tends to turn inward. To a large extent that's good.
In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.
Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics.
I don't believe in pulling punches or being judicious, as the standard in literary criticism or academic musicology.
I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.
You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life.
Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.
Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.
That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.
It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.
I'm generalizing wildly, but academic books find safety in explanations that reduce the chaos of social life.
The Dominican Republic has not been known in my lifetime as having world-class academic abilities.
I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.
We are selling ourselves very short by funneling our energies into what the traditional perception is of academic and monetary success.
Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.
There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
I think people are surprised when I string two sentences together. But I had a fiercely academic upbringing.
There are so many different ways in which someone is 'intelligent.' In my opinion this doesn't always have to be measured by academic achievement.
What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?
One of the biggest costs in the whole scientific publishing world is borne by the academic community, which is the peer review.
I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.
I don't think, in my entire 18 years as a student, I ever used an exclamation point in an academic paper.
Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.
Every winter, I'm a sexy academic deconstructionist. And in the summer, it's normally Brigitte Bardot on holiday in the 1950s.
Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.
Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
While academic abilities remain integral, it is the work ethics that form the soul of the business.
I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.
A core plank of left-wing academic thought is that gender and race are 'socially constructed.'
It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation.
I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic.
The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.
When I was 24, I went back to the academic life and did a degree in film and television at Brunel University.
I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the book.
I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
Multiculturalism and academic feminism started disparaging works of genius on the basis of their authors' sex and race.
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
It's probably indicative that I was destined for an academic career that I'm 6-5 and I lost the slam-dunk championship to somebody 5-8. I was a lot better at math.
Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.
Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not
High school is already an academic and social pressure cooker, and the forces that make it stressful are amplified for queer students.
I was reluctant to start the company that would become Lytro, primarily due to my academic background.
I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies.
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