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It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.
There's nothing more distasteful than an academic having to, like, trot out his credentials. You really come off as a jerk when you do that.
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 was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something.
'The Anthill' is the podcast wing of The Conversation, the site that presents news and views derived from the academic and research community.
I was very lucky to be born into a very academic family. I was well-read, well-trained in mathematics. I had lots of advantages to start with.
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.'
There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs.
Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school.
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.
My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.
Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.
In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as preparing students thoroughly for academic work.
Politicians are at a great distance from the academic world. Barack Obama was my colleague at Chicago - but could i ever talk to him now? Never.
I would not want to leave the impression that I would give some precedents more weight than others because of some sort of academic disagreement.
We should be cautious about embracing data before it is published in the academic press, and must always avoid treating correlation as causation.
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.
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.
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.
My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
Not many venture firms have people whose job is to read academic research - on startups, ventures, and entrepreneurs - and gather knowledge from that.
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'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed.
The sad thing about Trump is that everybody is secretly really relieved he got elected, of the people I know - the professional left and academic left.
When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
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.
When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course - but you don't need academic depth.
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.
I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
My ambition is to stop showing off. I'd love to be a tweedy academic. I'd be happy living in a croft. I like making jam. So why am I a semi-public figure?
I just decided that I didn't want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn't active enough for me.
Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists.
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.
I love Muhlenberg. I'm an academic. I needed a small school with incredible programs and found that here. I learned so much and grew so much in four years.
After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.
Some people don't need parental commitment, they will still come out great, but for others, parents can be critical in providing moral and academic guidance.
These days, there are times when my academic thinking intervenes in my writing, but it's usually while I'm developing a project and not while I'm writing it.
Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.
I went to Bard College, which was a really interesting synthesis of a hippie school and a serious academic institution. It was really the perfect spot for me.
If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion.
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.
I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?
For me, living a balanced life means nurturing the academic, physical, and spiritual aspects of my life so I can maintain a sense of well-being and self-esteem.
Like academic Marxists, who are their sisters under the skin, libertarians are far more interested in an ideal world than in the one where ordinary humans live.
I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.
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.
It does not make sense. It cannot exist. It's impossible, and if it isn't impossible, it's irrelevant, and if it isn't either of those things, it's embarrassing.
To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.