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Definition of Academic

Academic

  1. Alt. of Academical
  2. One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.
  3. A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.

Academic Quotations

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

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
Samuel Butler

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
Friedrich August von Hayek

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
Carroll Quigley

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Academic Translations

academic in Afrikaans is student
academic in Danish is student
academic in Dutch is akademisch, academisch
academic in German is akademisch, akademischem
academic in Norwegian is akademisk, akademiker
academic in Portuguese is estudante
academic in Swedish is akademisk

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