“ I have never compromised on academics and the one thing that I insist on is good grades, even though I am a relaxed and indulgent parent in most other things. Preeti Shenoy
“ Fortunately, our colleges and universities are fully cognizant of the problems I have been delineating and take concerted action to address them. Curricula are designed to give coherence to the educat… William Deresiewicz
“ Academics place much more importance on rigorous logic. There is also admiration in the profession for subtle reasoning. And mastery of the craft shows itself in the elegance of the intellectual super… Goh Keng Swee
“ ... I succeeded at math, at least by the usual evaluation criteria: grades. Yet while I might have earned top marks in geometry and algebra, I was merely following memorized rules, plugging in numbers… Jennifer Ouellette
“ You'd expect academics, people who are by training comfortable with complexity, to be the most resistant to the idea that we're shaped by any single factor. In fact, they are often the worst offenders… Nicholas Day
“ For every group, malevolence is always somewhere else. Maybe we understand at this point in history that it can occur at night in darkened rooms where small children sleep. However, surely not in acad… Anna C. Salter
“ People who wrote novels about universities hardly ever got them right. Max had spent his short working life untenured, but still he'd managed to be a charming magnet wherever he taught, and Amy had su… Jincy Willett
“ If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place. Criss Jami
“ If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status. Criss Jami
“ The goal of argumentation is to make a case so forceful (note the metaphor) that skeptics are coerced into believing it—they are powerless to deny it while still claiming to be rational. In principle,… Steven Pinker
“ Through most of human history, our ancestors had children shortly after puberty, just as the members of all nonhuman species do to this day. Whether we like the idea or not, our young ancestors must h… Robert Epstein
“ PISA was developed by a kind of think tank for the developed world, called the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the scientist at the center of the experiment was Andreas Sch… Amanda Ripley
“ Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle down for survival. Israelmore Ayivor
“ Make your education valuable. Apply what you learnt. Refuse to take the back seat and watch things happen. Join the change and be part of the change. Israelmore Ayivor
“ This is not education my friend. It is a process of manufacturing computation devices that look like Homo sapiens, and thereby falsely labeled as Education. Abhijit Naskar
“ I think her favorite thing about our . . . collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic colleagues, she liked the atmosphere of challenge, the way anything that… Helen Oyeyemi
“ This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to ‘serious’ courses replete with ‘trends ’ and ‘schools ’ and ‘myths ’ and ‘symbols ’ and ‘social comment… Vladimir Nabokov
