Quotes about academic
academic academics american-journalist believer firm practiced student three took week
I have always been a firm believer in participation so there were no cuts. We practiced three times a week but if a student had an academic conflict, academics took priority.
academic acting audience cultural culture curious emphasis fields finding free goes industry parallels people placed tells tv
It's curious how this parallels what goes on in academia. In academic fields like cultural studies, there's a lot of emphasis placed on finding and celebrating instances of audience "counter-hegemony" or audience "agency" instances of people not acting in the way that TV or the culture industry tells them to - the idea being that people really do have free will. Thomas Frank
academic call evaluation guy huge people playing school seeing strength talking tape work
It's an evaluation off tape only. We do not call the school or do any investigative work whatsoever. Playing is a huge part of it, but there's no talking to the coach, no seeing the guy on the hoof, no talking to the academic people or the strength coach.
academic extent safe talk thinks
It's very safe in the academic community; no one thinks anything of it. But to some extent there's more talk than action.
academic
I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small. Naveen Andrews
academic additional amount hiring money poured pushed record
We poured a record amount of money into hiring additional faculty, ... The academic infrastructure has been pushed to the limit.
academic amount capitalist delivered economy engine finance haunts hour hours increased literature modern money occupies output per progress quest time viewed waking work
Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers. Tim Jackson
academic less scores students
Our students are a little less overweight, and their academic scores are high. I want the same for every student in Tennessee.
academic aerospace command labor lead means power quality spent time wield
I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought. Neil deGrasse Tyson
academic huge middle total
I was a huge bookworm, total nerd, so I was a victim in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, so I was an easy target.
academic chairs field life needs professor recruiting retaining
The field of 'economics and organization' is still young and needs support. I have been a chaired professor much of my academic life and know that such chairs are important for recruiting and retaining faculty. Oliver E. Williamson
academic busily finance further game improve life outside presume previous rushed spent struggling truth weak
Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth. Yanis Varoufakis
academic apparently bolivia came country curriculum enter entire graduate high school spanish united until
My father came from a country called Bolivia. He was of Spanish descent. I never went to Bolivia until I was 60 years old, but apparently when he was 17, he had already planned his entire academic curriculum so that he could graduate high school and enter college in the United States. That's how much he wanted to come to this country. Raquel Welch
academic became computer family finished grew high science
I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson. Rodney Brooks
academic came concerns expected giving high money none quality short work
When I first started the Project, I could not have expected so much to be accomplished in such a short time. None of my concerns about giving money to an academic institution came true. They've done high quality work with real-world relevance. Chuck D.
academic best reputation road standards upgrade
We need to upgrade Wyoming's academic standards and reputation. The Hathaway scholarship has put us on a road to be the best and the first in education.
academic across dim forth gather historians history journalism passing strength though
I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.
academic advances agenda america careers components critical developing education emphasis employment federal funding future given global helps importance math order science skills state students technology understanding union using
Understanding and using technology are critical components of all students' academic careers and, most certainly, barometers of their future employment prospects. Given the president's emphasis in the State of the Union on the importance of developing math and science skills in America's students in order to keep America competitive globally, we do not see how eliminating federal education technology funding advances his global competitiveness agenda or helps our students.
academic authors both educate expect generally instructor interested scientists singer
Academic scientists aren't generally interested in books for the public. So when one comes out, the authors can't expect much praise from scientists. My goal both as a singer and an instructor is to educate through provocation and entertainment. Greg Graffin
academic achievement closing eighth fourth great last led math nation past proud raising reading scores seven strides three washington year
We've made great strides in raising academic achievement during the past seven years. I am especially proud that Washington led the nation last year in reading scores for African-American fourth graders. African-American eighth graders in Washington scored better in math than in all but three states. We are closing the achievement gap.
academic age early good historical history might novelist simply
I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I would write historical fiction. I never thought I might write academic history because I simply wasn't good enough! Pat Barker
academic both common dreamt earth heaven learns player poker science trust
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent. David Mamet
academic anywhere both combine finest football found game games gone played players rivalry sides
With a game like this, you have to look at the players that have played on both sides in the past, and all of the things that they've accomplished, and the games that have gone on between them, and the institutions themselves. You have two of the finest academic institutions in the country, and then you combine that with the football tradition. That kind of rivalry isn't found anywhere else in the country.
academic chill extent supports system tenure
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.
academic boarding cambridge carrying choose dad decided family hopes law left mum parents school study whether won
When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted to. Afterwards, I went to Cambridge to study law - in a way, I was carrying the academic hopes of my family, as Mum and Dad left school at 14. Stephen Mangan
academic build evaluate good pillars program second social third three
We've got three pillars that we're going to try and build this program around. The first is academic integrity. The second is social responsibility. We want good citizens. Third is competitive excellence. When I evaluate our program on those three pillars, I think we're making good progress.
academic build environment foster school seem smaller
Why build a mega-high school when smaller configurations seem to foster a better academic environment?
academic approach awareness bring economic keen markets mind party quite reality
Those with an academic approach bring really quite a keen mind to the party but not necessarily an awareness of the reality of the markets and economic activity.