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Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society.
Anthony Biglan
[wpsm_quote author="Audre Lorde" float="none" width="100%"]The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That’s a terrifying situation. That’s contrary to the principles of science.
Ben Stein
[wpsm_quote author="Benedict Cumberbatch" float="none" width="100%"]The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
Bruce Jackson
To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.
C. Wright Mills
Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.
Camille Paglia
[wpsm_quote author="Camille Paglia" float="none" width="100%"]Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.
[wpsm_quote author="Caroline Knapp" float="none" width="100%"]Academic achievement was something I’d always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.
[wpsm_quote author="Carolyn Heilbrun" float="none" width="100%"]A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.
Academics don’t normally manage to alter people’s way of thinking through their strength of argument.
David Crystal
[wpsm_quote author="Donald Norman" float="none" width="100%"]Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right.
Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.
Edward Abbey
Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.
Elbert Hubbard
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.
Evan Sayet
[wpsm_quote author="Ezekiel Emanuel" float="none" width="100%"]As an academic, what do you have? You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.
The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Academic questions are interlopers in a world where so few of the real ones have been answered.
Henry S. Haskins
No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.
Howard Gardner
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
Jeanette Winterson
Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.
John Lithgow
[wpsm_quote author="Kenny Smith" float="none" width="100%"]When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
Mason Cooley
The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.
Michael Crichton
In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with.
Michael Ignatieff
The academic life is wonderful. That’s why people love to do research.
Michael Marmot
Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.
Michael McKean
It is still an act of academic heresy to regard Egypt as the cradle of civilization and originator of Jewish and Christian religious traditions.
Michael Tsarion
[wpsm_quote author="Neil deGrasse Tyson" float="none" width="100%"]If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
Noam Chomsky
The reason academic disputes are so vicious is that so little is at stake.
Noam Chomsky
Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don’t like coming to decisions at all.
Noel Annan
Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.
Pablo Picasso
[wpsm_quote author="Paul Tough" float="none" width="100%"]And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything.
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.
Pierre Trudeau
My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.
Ram Dass
Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of “knowingness”- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.
Richard Rorty
Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline – sociology – as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.
Richard Wall
[wpsm_quote author="Ronald Fisher" float="none" width="100%"]The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence.
[wpsm_quote author="Salvador Allende" float="none" width="100%"]First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left.
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
Samuel Butler
Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.
Simone Weil
The idea that academics should remain ”above the fray” only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.
Stephanie Coontz
[wpsm_quote author="Wallace S. Sayre" float="none" width="100%"]Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.
[wpsm_quote author="William F. Buckley, Jr." float="none" width="100%"]The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague.
William McKeen
