Academic Quotes - Page 18

• The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.

  Howard Zinn

  College, Resources, Should

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• There is no clear, commanding body of evidence that students' sustained use of multimedia machines, the Internet, word processing, spreadsheets and other popular applications has any impact on academic achievement.'

  Larry Cuban

  Achievement, Internet, Evidence

  "Kids Need To Explore Real World" by Henry Norr, www.sfgate.com. September 18, 2000.

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• 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.

  James E. Rogers, Jr.

  Real, Academic Freedom, Support

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• There's a lot of things to learn, starting with you'd better caution people just as the State Department cautioned people, especially those of Chinese descent, before they decide to engage in academic research in China.

  Jerome A. Cohen

  People, Chinese, Research

  "Spy cases turn spotlight on shadowy legal system" by Lisa Weaver, www.cnn.com. July 26, 2001.

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• When I graduated from high school, I had artistic and academic scholarships, and I was trying to figure out what to do. I decided to audition for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Juilliard and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, Australia.

  Deborah Kara Unger

  Art, School, Australia

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.

  Audre Lorde

  Skills, Differences, Crucible

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• I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.

  Sarah Waters

  Novelists, Rate, Wells

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• Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Life Is, Music Is, Life Without Music

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• No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.

  Dennis Prager

  Wings, May, Racist

  Dennis Prager (2015). “Dennis Prager: Volume I”, p.79, Creators Publishing

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• Leftism has influenced the literary, academic, media, and, therefore, the political elite far more than any other religion. It has taken over Western schools from elementary through graduate.

  Dennis Prager

  Taken, School, Media

  Dennis Prager (2015). “Dennis Prager: Volume I”, p.46, Creators Publishing

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• Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.

  Jessi Klein

  Art, College, Degrees

  "Comedian Jessi Klein Plays Not My Job Listen". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. April 8, 2011.

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• One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving their non-negotiable demands, starts pitching bricks and rocks at the student union- just imagine they are wearing brown shirts or white sheets- and act accordingly.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Education, Rocks, White

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• 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.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Play, Together, Connections

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or academic books or nonfiction books is that you don't get to hear the person's voice; you don't get them as individuals. You get a few quotes and you hear them as sort of a case study: numbers, examples, anecdotes, maybe a paragraph here, and that's about it.

  Dave Eggers

  Powerful, Book, Voice

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• I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds of fields; law, medicine, history, and they eventually dispersed all over the world to do their fieldwork. I liked the way these people committed to the long term in a sincere, visionary way. Their projects weren't about "next season." They were ten-year commitments. They were lifestyle choices that had traditions of fieldwork built into them - moving around, living on location, discipline, a real rigor for research.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Real, Moving, Commitment

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• 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

  Christian, Religious, Egypt

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• The love of money is the root of all evil. That is the fundamental truth that I have verified through 3 decades of empirical, investigative, legal, academic research trying to answer some fundamental questions about human existence and why we behave the way we do, why we think the way we do, why we act the way we do...It is the love of money that has the potential to exterminate- to render extinct- the entire human race.

  Michael Ruppert

  Thinking, Roots, Race

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• ...academic credentials are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for having your ideas taken seriously. If a famous professor repeatedly says stupid things, then tries to claim he never said them, there's no rule against calling him a mendacious idiot - and no special qualifications required to make that pronouncement other than doing your own homework.Conversely, if someone without formal credentials consistently makes trenchant, insightful observations, he or she has earned the right to be taken seriously, regardless of background.

  Paul Krugman

  Stupid, Taken, Ideas

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• I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

  Ken Thompson

  Jobs, Reading, Gardening

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• 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.

  David Lodge

  Academic Life, Law, Peers

  1984 Small World, pt.3, ch.1.

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• The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simple, Light, Mind

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

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• They [free market policies] were never based on solid empirical and theoretical foundations, and even as many of these policies were being pushed, academic economists were explaining the limitations of markets for instance, whenever information is imperfect, which is to say always.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Foundation, Information, Imperfect

  "Bleakonomics". www.nytimes.com. September 30, 2007.

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• With a weak and rotting core, you don't have much of a foreign policy. You're discounted at the negotiating table, economically and militarily. So when people ask what's the best course of action for the U.S.-China relationship, I can give you ten academic responses. But the reality is we need to rebuild our core.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Reality, People, Giving

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• Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.

  V. S. Pritchett

  People, Used, Aspiration

  "V. S. Pritchett" by Paul Theroux, archive.nytimes.com. May 22, 1977.

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• I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension. I am a person who [commits] breaches of decorum - not in private life, but in my work. They are part of my mode of operation. That kind of playfulness is part of my nature in general. The paradox that, in a way, to take something very seriously, you can't always be serious about it.

  William H. Gass

  Hate, Desire, Jargon

  Interview with Stephen Schenkenberg, www.believermag.com. November, 2005.

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