“Our fixation on college readiness leads our high school curricula toward purely academic subjects and away from life skills.”— Andrew Yang, amazon.com
“(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com
“Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.”— Leonard Bernstein, goodreads.com