I'd want to bring a flamethrower to faculty meetings. The preciousness of academics and their fragile personalities would not be tolerated in any other business in the known universe.
I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.
In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.
My dad wanted me to go down a more academic route. He is very much about sticking to the rule book and sticking to the blueprint of a successful career.
Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing. I can't quite grasp that.
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
You have to be equal at both - great at football and great at dedicating yourself to the academics at Notre Dame. It's hard. There are no rooty-toot classes for athletes in South Bend.
I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.
I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.
Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.
I went to a private school, and I struggled academically. It was really disheartening to always be considered bad at that.
I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic.
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!
Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.
Academic degrees can never buy you decency and wisdom. Both are heavenly gifts.
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.
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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.
If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.
They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.
I've always enjoyed real work more than schoolwork. My mother will attest to that - she was always concerned about me academically.
