Academic Quotes - Page 2

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

Academic theology is false.

While the universities are increasingly corporatized and militarized, their governing structures are becoming more authoritarian, faculty are being devalued as public intellectuals, students are viewed as clients, academic fields are treated as economic domains for providing credentials, and work place skills, and academic freedom is under assault.

In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

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.

If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.

I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.

My academic schedule is lighter this year because it's an Olympic year.

I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint - no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided...

Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

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.'

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.

Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.

I was always more of an academic than a jock.

Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important freedom the scholar has, and part of that process is to state its results.

Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.

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.

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style

I have not had any serious non-academic job.