Academic
/ˌakəˈdemik/
adjective/noun
adjective
1. related to formal education
That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.
- Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
2. Focused on theoretical learning and scholarship rather than practical application
The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on in front of me.
- David Foster Wallace (1962-2008)
noun
a person, such as a professor or researcher, who works in a college or academic institution
A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.
- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (1916-2003)
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