189 Quotes About Academics

People run after academic grades instead of learning concepts when you connect ‘wisdom’ to ‘bread’.

To a scholar, mathematics is music.

Mathematics is not just a subject of education system, it is the soul of education system.

You may no longer be in school, but you must never stop learning. We need to be as smart as the white ghosts.

Half of what students learn in school is useful only during examinations.

PISA was developed by a kind of think tank for the developed world, called the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the scientist at the center of the experiment was Andreas Schleicher.

Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful. 'As a friend [Charlie Munger] said, to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

There's no crying in the rank book.

I couldn't care less about good marks. I want to learn.