Scholarly Braveheart Gifts

Face it -- you resent me for the exploring in depth a world that you take for granted.

I should be a writer when I grow up...

"The prostate biopsy shows your pain threshold is much higher than normal."

Thank you, Essential Workers

"I figure I have about 20 years of school to go."

'The best grants lie that-a-ways, Ma'am.'

'I don't trust him - he's got beady eyes.'

The Giamatti era

Professor McWit, Didn't Publish, So Perished.

"Quit your whining... Someday you'll appreciate affordable student housing."

'This is going really well. I did a great job organizing this lecture.'

'Good luck with your exams' (mountain climbers).

"I seem to have forgotten what I was going to say...please...hold the applause!"

"She's always been a quick learner."

Welcome Sufferers of Stage Fright

"I went to college knowing I wanted to be an astronaut. My parents had only a third-grade education. But they were good teachers. They taught me the importance of hard work...of perseverance...of not being afraid to dream."

Academics at the Beach

"So I hear you did your own stunts in this movie."

"It's a great extra recruiting tool. Those who know they can't live up to that quickly disappear."

'Mrs. Wayne was so excited about getting her masters in physical science, she took a quantum leap!'

William Wallace.

"I love academe. And academe loves me to death. But crap, I'm just not in love."

'You can bring Fury in now, Mrs. Caslick.'

Gone Lecturin'

'Braveheart is one of your ancestors? And why the heck don't you look like Mel Gibson??'

(Carl's Sports Bar) - 'Hockey Sucks!!' - Although Earl had made good on his dare, it would be weeks before he could eat solid food again.

Starting School

"I'm gay! I'm gay!"

The Lecture.

Giambattista Vico

David Starkey

Guillaume Bude

'You've got to admire them. Most of them actually have children of their own.'

'I get rattled too easily.'

Lady reads book about beating phobias.