#academics

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#before #ever #growing #jargon #most

Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university. ↗

— James E. Rogers

#campus #college #contributing #develop #discount

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#books #criticism #humor #interpretation #literature

You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#anything #dedicated #excitement #finding #fun

There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States. ↗

— Preston Manning

#american #canadian #definition #dislikes #fears

I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates. ↗

— Juan Cole

#been #debates #i #i think #important

Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#balance #both #everything #find #huge

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor. ↗

— John Lithgow

#humor #infantile #senses #tend #wonderfully

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. ↗

— Tony Brown

#academics #always #been #believer #conflict

Today we have a weakness in our education process in failing to understand the natural associations between the disciplines. We tend to study all our disciplines in unrelated parallel lines. This tends to be true in both Christian and secular education. This is one of the reasons why evangelical Christians have been taken by surprise at the tremendous shift that has come in our generation. ↗

— Francis A. Schaeffer

#culture #education #education