Sentence examples for instead of the academic from inspiring English sources

Sperling drew his faculty from the working world instead of the academic.

"Instead of the academic grandeur of marble halls and stairways and miles of chairless spaces, with low standards and popular attractions to draw the crowds," he wrote, "we plan to try the effect of domestic architecture, of rooms small or at least livable".

Both chose to use a less academically respected, but more accessible medium for distribution of their science Sagan through television, and Galileo in Italian instead of the academic language of Latin.

Los Angeles schools Superintendent John Deasy weighed in on behalf of a lawsuit against the state, contending rightly that students were unconstitutionally assigned to do-nothing classes instead of the academic courses they needed.

Bradley himself resisted the lure of industry, preferring instead the academic freedom of his current position.

And some of these theories and models have stunning results, but may not have been published in academic journals because the author is a practitioner instead of an academic, or because the concepts are a little too far out of the mainstream.

There was a growing culture of "rushing children" to a point where they could produce a return for the economy, instead of following academic evidence that learning through structured play and self-development was the best way to prepare children for a successful education, he said.

Instead of tending toward the academic tone of many similar studies, SERENDIPITY provides a nimble yet immersive jaunt through the annals of time suitable for readers of all experience levels.

Her character Danielle is paired up on a school project with Jeremy, a closeted gay kid with absolutely no friends played by Jeremy Dozier, and, instead of pursuing academics, the pair set off to chase the bigger answers in life.

She found her center of expression in the solar plexus, not the limbs, and instead of preset academic positions, she emphasized flow.

Yet the compromises Foreman had to make to reach a wide audience did not in the end seriously undermine the book's scholarship, any more than putting the notes at the end of the book instead of at the foot of the page, or using them for the discussion of academic disputes, instead of the actual text, means the end of academic respectability.