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Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
Mum had regular mental tests with her specialist, but because of her academic background, she became brilliant at manipulating them.
I studiously avoid any academic dissections of the play and any kind of previous experience of playing. For me, it's all in the play.
Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
If someone chooses a vocational route, why do they not get the same respect in society as someone who just does a pure academic route?
High school is already an academic and social pressure cooker, and the forces that make it stressful are amplified for queer students.
My mum was always more pushing me towards the academic side; she wasn't really interested in me having a professional football career.
I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.
Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't become an actor. If perhaps I'd stayed on at university and become an academic.
In a way, it has been an advantage for me to be a woman because there is always some academic committee that needs you to fill a quota!
I'm a very creative person, but that side of me was suppressed because I was academic. I was depressed at school, and I didn't know why.
Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about their atheism.
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.
There's nothing more distasteful than an academic having to, like, trot out his credentials. You really come off as a jerk when you do that.
It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.
I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in.
I was always fascinated with science, and being Persian, it's instilled in us at a young age to follow something very academic in our career.
If pluralism and academic freedom are to be used to defend liberal speakers and ideas, they ought to be equally valid for conservative views.
I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something.
'The Anthill' is the podcast wing of The Conversation, the site that presents news and views derived from the academic and research community.
I was very lucky to be born into a very academic family. I was well-read, well-trained in mathematics. I had lots of advantages to start with.
There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs.
Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.'
My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.
Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school.
I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.
In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as preparing students thoroughly for academic work.
Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.
Politicians are at a great distance from the academic world. Barack Obama was my colleague at Chicago - but could i ever talk to him now? Never.
We should be cautious about embracing data before it is published in the academic press, and must always avoid treating correlation as causation.
I would not want to leave the impression that I would give some precedents more weight than others because of some sort of academic disagreement.
In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.
I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.
My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.
I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.
I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed.
Not many venture firms have people whose job is to read academic research - on startups, ventures, and entrepreneurs - and gather knowledge from that.
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to meet both those obligations.
There's a certain kind of academic that comes to Washington and can't survive. They're the ones starting each sentence with 'The economic model says.'
The sad thing about Trump is that everybody is secretly really relieved he got elected, of the people I know - the professional left and academic left.
When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
My dad wanted me to go down a more academic route. He is very much about sticking to the rule book and sticking to the blueprint of a successful career.
As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.
When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course - but you don't need academic depth.
One of the reasons I never went into pro football was because I wanted my kids to grow up around an academic environment. And that's exactly what we did.
I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
My ambition is to stop showing off. I'd love to be a tweedy academic. I'd be happy living in a croft. I like making jam. So why am I a semi-public figure?