Academic Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  Discipline, Psychology, Study

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• My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.

  Georg Brandes

  Smile, Circles, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.

  Stanislav Grof

  Animal, Thinking, Cells

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• Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

  B. F. Skinner

  Graduation, Education, Teacher

  New Scientist 21 May 1964

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• The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in which power actually functions in the society, and the faculty has caught the message and they do it magnificently.

  Noam Chomsky

  Power, Society, Want

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “Language and Politics”, p.136, AK Press

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• There is a common misconception that intelligence is synonymous with IQ. "Intelligence Quotient" or IQ was originally built to predict the academic aptitude of schoolchildren, and is nothing more than a measure of the skills needed for academic success. Intelligence, however, is a much broader concept that encompasses a person's level of skill for any of a number of subjects.

  Justin Menkes

  Common, Misconception

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.

  Robert Sternberg

  Doe, Success In Life, Academic Success

  Robert J. Sternberg (2011). “College Admissions for the 21st Century”, p.86, Harvard University Press

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• I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Believe, Academic Freedom, Professors

  "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. March 21, 2006.

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• I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.

  Lev Grossman

  Way, Tribes, East

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• I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.

  Sam Harris

  Thinking, People, Doubt

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. October 11, 2010.

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• With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Motivation, School, Yale

  "Videotaped remarks shed light on Sotomayor" by Charlie Savage, www.sfgate.com. June 11, 2009.

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• Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.

  Thomas Sowell

  Creating, Serious, Study

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• I read reviews of critics I respect and feel I can learn something from. Right now there are a lot of bottom-feeder critics who just have access to a computer and don't necessarily have an academic or cinema background that I can detect, so I tend to ignore that and stay with the same top-tier critics that I've come to respect. I like reading a good review - it doesn't have to be favorable, but a well-thought-out one - because I very much appreciate the relationship of directors and critics.

  Alexander Payne

  Reading, Appreciate, Computer

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• The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Imagination, Genius, Intellect

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.77, Random House

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• I am creating an atmosphere! Oh, Unc, we’ve finally got bodies in this joint! Paying bodies. We could have a good racket going here.” “I’m not interested in a ‘racket.’ I’m an academic.” “That’s okay, Unc. I won’t hold it against you.

  Libba Bray

  Creating, Atmosphere, Body

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• A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing. Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he might have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it.

  Stephen King

  Lonely, Children, Real

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Jobs, Believe, People

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2013

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• And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly grateful for instruction, whether it was how to stroke a backhand, mix a martini, use a wallpaper steamer, or do the Twist. My wife, too, seemed willing to learn. Old as we must have looked to our children, we were still taking lessons, in how to be grown-up.

  John Updike

  Happiness, Children, Educational

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.55, Random House

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• Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Forgiveness, Peace

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• Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as irrelevant; they could not understand how the members of any academic profession could fail to be intrigued by the study of their own cultural heritage. What these historians did not grasp was that scientists will welcome the history of science only when it has been demonstrated that this discipline can add to our understanding of science itself and thus help to produce, in some sense, better scientists.

  I. Bernard Cohen

  Science, Discipline, Understanding

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• Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

  Lester Bowie

  Music, Memorable, Exercise

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• For all those who are interested in the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, esthetic, historical or any other aspects of our dance art... It is high time that our universities had faculties for dance, giving the art its due place in the academic world.

  Padma Subrahmanyam

  Dance, Spiritual, Art

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• I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even better. My vision is that academic excellence is the area that we should pursue more, coupled with fiscal discipline.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Thinking, Academic Excellence, Discipline

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• Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased, bargained for, inherited, rented or imported from afar. It must be home-grown. Purely intellectual development without commensurate internal character development makes as much sense as putting a high-powered sports car in the hands of a teenager who is high on drugs. Yet all too often in the academic world, that's exactly what we do by not focusing on the character development of young people.

  Stephen Covey

  Sports, Teenager, Home

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• With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting effective teaching in every classroom, charting a path to college and careers for all students, and developing the tools to help all children stay motivated and engaged in their own education. The more states that adopt these college and career based standards, the closer we will be to sharing innovation across state borders and becoming more competitive as a country.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Children, Educational

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