Definition of Academic

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Definition of Academic
	Academic Alt. of Academical One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist. A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician. Related Definitions: Academical, Academician, Academy, Alt, An, And, College, Holding, Member, Of, One, Or, Philosophy, Platonist, The, University

Academic Quotations

If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.
Albert Ellis

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic.
William Bernbach

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

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.
Knute Rockne

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

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

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
George Will

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.
Sonia Sotomayor

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

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
Twyla Tharp

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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