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“In some sense our aim ought to be to convert the school from an academic institution into an intellectual one. That shift in the culture of schooling would represent a profound shift in emphasis and in direction.”

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Author:Elliot W. Eisner

“We should also give students more flexibility in the courses they take in high school to prepare them for whatever their goals may be, without sacrificing our rigorous academic standards.”

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Author:Rick Perry

“Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.”

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Book:Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

“One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving their non-negotiable demands, starts pitching bricks and rocks at the student union- just imagine they are wearing brown shirts or white sheets- and act accordingly.”

Source: The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment

“By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.”

“[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal grants.' Now that she is in a high-profile and hotly partisan race, it has come out that she also benefited from the moral and financial support of her second - now ex - husband. In the process, though, behavior we would expect and hardly notice in a man is being portrayed as freakish and problematic in a woman.”

“Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation, but that wise men thinking for themselves and heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life; that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room, and children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?”

Source: The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.”

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Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.”

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Author:Loretta Young

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”

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Book:The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr

Source: The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr

“People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.”

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Author:Bill Vaughan

“Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.”

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Author:Ken Robinson