Academic

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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