Academies Quotes

The people I admire most are those doing outstanding things for the poorest children, such as Michael Wilshaw at Mossbourne academy, Dan Moynihan and all those at the Harris academies, and those at chains such as Ark and the Haberdashers, who are driving up standards in the poorest areas.

Opportunities for young girls, like young boys, to go into academies from a young age does happen now in England, but it doesn't happen globally.

There are plenty of good drama schools and academies helping children and young people to learn to sing, dance, and act.

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

In all the unsettled parts, boundaries of counties and cities of the county towns ought to be ascertained before-hand and purchases made of 600 or 1000 acres to be laid out in lots and outlots, and the profits applied to academies. The county to be declared by proclamation entitled to a separate representation as soon as the ratio of one member shall be complete, and to a separate judicature as soon as a Court house and jail proper for the purpose shall be finished. This plan would prevent much intrigue and partiality, and would throw the profits into a better channel than they are now in. At present county towns are only means of gain without merit to the owners of the land, who may impose what terms they please on the purchasers.

Admission to the National Academy is highly competitive and selective.

We want a corps of educated instructors – we want gratuitous instruction in our academies and colleges. The di minorum of learning ought to be elevated in the scale of public estimation and intellectual endowment.

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.

There are quite a lot of young players around now with undoubted talent who get stuck in academies at big clubs.