The academies offer an excellent opportunity for those willing to rise to the challenges and rigors of a military education.
Quotes about academies (16 Quotes)
We're told we're not supposed to gossip, that our reputation plummets, but in this context there may be an expectation that you should gossip you're obligated to tell, like an informal version of the honor code at military academies,
Certain people get attracted to this type of work they pass our stringent background investigations, they get through our academies, they take an oath of office to defend the constitution of the state of California as well as the United States -- and what do they do They go off in a total different direction. And I think the public is fed up with this, and I know I am fed up with it.
Things went pretty much as expected. Our goal this year was to win all three championships - Southern Chester County League, Athletic Association of Catholic Academies and District 1. We had never done it before but, we did it this year.
In general, when you look at girls in the academies, they are just not taught that way. I think it's just because they're always so one-sided, playing with their coach or playing with their hitting partner. And you know, just boom, boom, boom all the time
All Fisher Fellows must complete a three-month residency--it's the time when theory meets reality. To get them thinking about leadership techniques and the needs of schools at different levels of maturity, we place them in schools that are well-established, like our academies in Houston and New York, and they also spend time at schools that are just starting and still attempting to define their cultures. At the end of the residency, they are better equipped to make their vision a reality.
There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
There must be a strong suspicion that this is a ruse to increase the number of schools that can be turned into academies, so that the Prime Minister's target of 200 academies can be met.
Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.
And one of the odd things about it is that poetry is now fleeing from the academies to another institution, which is the performance poetry.
I urge all interested high school seniors to consider making an application to our nation's military service academies,
Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.
Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
There's always something special when the service academies play each other that's not in any other game. This is not a regular game, and everyone involved knows that.
Each year, I have the honor of recommending young men and women for appointment to the U. S. military Academies, ... This is an opportunity for a top-notch education for the right kind of student.