Kids who don't play are not just at greater risk of falling behind academically, but also of becoming overweight or obese, failing to integrate socially, and even engaging in criminal activity.
I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.
The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.
Even being too good at teaching is risky at research universities; the joke is that a 'teacher of the year' award is the kiss of death for non-tenured professors.
It would be suicide in the American academy to show too early an interest beyond your doctoral specialization: charges of everything from charlatanry to ambition would be levied and tenure denied. I've seen this first-hand.
To be an outspoken professor in academia is a very dangerous proposition.
Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
If I stay in academia, I might end up going someplace random.
You have to be more picky with jobs when you're at school because you can't miss crucial times and put your education in jeopardy for things that aren't worth it at the time.
In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself.
The scientists do not get enough help, enough encouragement, to change their field from time to time because the pressure is too high or is to perform something. And once you start in a new field, you are a nobody to start with, you see.
