African American students, for example, were often steered into vocational education programs on the assumption that they were not capable of academic training or would not be hired for jobs that required it.
Unfortunately, minority students often are led to believe that they are not capable of academic excellence.
"Having encouraged me to go to school because I was capable of being academic, the family then worried over whether I should leave and join a firm of accountants in Bexhill".
Still, schools must have an important role to play, since some schools and universities do manage to produce students who are capable of high academic achievement, regardless of their backgrounds.
As expected, Princeton students range from the smart to the very, very smart, and during their time at Princeton they become even more capable in whatever academic focus they may have.
But I stubbornly suspect that only the cultist, or the academic, is capable of swallowing an author whole.
"The merger presents the opportunity to develop an institute capable of providing both academic and vocational training programmes from entry level through to postgraduate studies.
Although both I and my youngest seemed capable of handling the academic part of our education, we have been regularly faulted by teachers for behavioral "problems".
Grammar schools in Northern Ireland continue to cater to pupils deemed capable of appreciating an academic education; secondary schools offer more general and vocational training.
He is capable of writing dense academic tomes such as The Signifying Monkey: Towards a Theory of Afro-American Criticism, and also presenting a Public Service Television documentary called Wonders of the African World, which his rival, Professor Molefi Kete Asante, called 'a travesty which mocks African culture and distorts African history'.
