#academic

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#aspect #being #cerebral #cherished #comes

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#achievement #ahead #charter #charter schools #cost

There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs. ↗

— John Warner

#activities #buildings #community #how #more

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

#been #conceive #discipline #individuals #psychology

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#academics #body #book #consumes #each

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

— Terri Windling

#artist #i

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish. ↗

— Daniel J. Bernstein

#i #perish #publish

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics. ↗