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Last updated on November 26, 2024.
[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits.
My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.
Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.
I'm not pretending to be an academic, or to have this down to a science. It's strictly my taste. But there is a connection between everything I play and the sets I put together.
I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.
I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.
I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.
'The Anthill' is the podcast wing of The Conversation, the site that presents news and views derived from the academic and research community.
Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day.
To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.
My elder brother and sister were both sporty and academic, and I think, subconsciously, I knew I couldn't go down that avenue.
The arts are statistically proven to increase independent thinking, creativity, discipline, balance, and academic improvement in children.
By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD.
We should be cautious about embracing data before it is published in the academic press, and must always avoid treating correlation as causation.
I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to meet both those obligations.
I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.
It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea.
I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
I was always fascinated with science, and being Persian, it's instilled in us at a young age to follow something very academic in our career.
Sports will equip kids with the necessary tools to face academic challenges, and provide all-round development.
Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.
Well, I've obviously been a great source of inspiration to the academic population of Salford! They're citing me as a major contribution to their upward trajectory!
I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in.
I'm a very creative person, but that side of me was suppressed because I was academic. I was depressed at school, and I didn't know why.
I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future hinge on such people and such decisions.
First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left.
In a way, it has been an advantage for me to be a woman because there is always some academic committee that needs you to fill a quota!
It is still an act of academic heresy to regard Egypt as the cradle of civilization and originator of Jewish and Christian religious traditions.
The NetBeans team tended to be focused on academic purity. Getting them to be a little more blue-collar was a challenge.
I put that part of myself into both Brendan and Evelyn [from The Thorn and the Blossom] - as well as some of my own anxieties about the academic life!
I was always more street-smart than academic, as such, but I took a Mensa test once and did quite well in it.
As we've grown our family, that's really when I've started to develop a real, true appreciation of my own faith and not just the academic.
(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.
The PC rebellion is about a reaction against the media academic complex, which tells us what to say - or else.
All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.
I grew up in the '60s and '70s, where it was still acceptable to say, 'Well, you're not academic, so that's fine, you'll do it some other way.'
I want to inspire Asian kids to become more artistic and creative rather than feeling that they have to be academic or whatever.
Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists.
I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.
I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.
When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.
In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last 45 years, and only rarely a writer.
If you go into an academic institution with a clean slate, you are very likely to come out a liberal. That is a huge problem.
I was a huge bookworm, total nerd, so I was a victim in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, so I was an easy target.
I spent a lot of time in college. I was just being academic and discovering myself through reason and analysis.
If pluralism and academic freedom are to be used to defend liberal speakers and ideas, they ought to be equally valid for conservative views.
I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades.
I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.
In research, I wanted to establish the medicinal chemistry/bioassay conjugation as an academic pursuit, as exciting to the imagination as astrophysics or molecular biology.
Simply writing a Ph.D. or academic book was unlikely to play much of a role in helping shape people's lives as I wanted.
There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs.
The truth is, for many young people, the changing schools or starting a new academic year is really difficult to deal with.
One of the reasons I never went into pro football was because I wanted my kids to grow up around an academic environment. And that's exactly what we did.
From B.A. to M.A. and on to Ph.D., my academic career was all smooth sailing. Upon receiving my degrees, I stayed on to teach at Beijing Normal University.
In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
Not many venture firms have people whose job is to read academic research - on startups, ventures, and entrepreneurs - and gather knowledge from that.
The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
Public universities play a major role in their local communities, serving a variety of needs in addition to their traditional academic roles.
