Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society.

— Anthony Biglan

A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.

— Robert Fanney

As students grow more and more accustomed to assuming materialism and naturalism in their academic work, the concept of creation by God gradually tends to become less real to them. It is not so much that any single finding undermines their faith; rather, the day-to-day practice of thinking in naturalistic terms about academic subjects makes it awkward to think differently when it comes to religion.

— Phillip E. Johnson

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

First organizing it on paper isn't just academic, it's an applied prerequisite for manifestation.

— T.F. Hodge

...he had also acquired a peculiar academic quirk. During exams, he knew all the answers but wasn’t able to successfully map his answers to the right questions. So as soon as an exam started, he simply started putting his answers in the order in which he remembered them. Every time he moved to a new class, his parents made the new teachers aware of this snag. The teachers acknowledged it and reassured the parents that they’d match his answers against the appropriate questions.

— Pawan Mishra

His name was Ed. His nickname was Scrambled Ed. On leaving school he had taken a year out to decide what he wanted to study at University. The year passed, and he still hadn't decided but went to University anyway. 'Academic' is defined as 'of, or relating to, institutionalized education and scholarship'. The same word, at the same time, also means 'having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed, unengaging or theoretical'. The latter definition seemed the most appropriate for Ed's university career which was a mash-up of drinking, diving, surfing, kayaking and having his heart-broken. All washed down with a few pints. After three years of that he was awarded a second class joint honors degree which he put in the recycling bin and went in search of something that would make him feel better.

— Matt Padwick

If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating mental illness as a genetically influenced disorder of brain chemistry--has been a smashing success. Freud's ideas, which dominated the history of psychiatry for the past half century, are now vanishing like the last snows of winter.

— Edward Shorter

If we fail to understand the biblical story of Jesus, we will compromise our prophetic interpretations of the end-times. And that's exactly what we've done.

— Eli Of Kittim

If you hate to think, you are not different from some who is peeing on his academic certificates. The goal of education is to help you to think and lead.

— Israelmore Ayivor