#academic

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#become #claim #democratic #democratic party #democrats

I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#am #classes #collected #day #essays

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges. ↗

— Richard Russo

#against #already #always #any #been

As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions. ↗

— Brad Sherman

#academic #academically #achievement #athletic #bestow

After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#achievements #after #city #continued #except

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#activities #grades #make #more #powerful

I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#anyone #deny #group #i #superior

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#ask #department #diversity #how #important