Sentence examples for quit academia from inspiring English sources

Bishara says it was this development that propelled him to quit academia and enter politics.

Bernanke, who co-authored a popular textbook and then quit academia for a public life in which he led the Fed through the deepest slump since the nineteen-thirties, certainly fits the description.

Right after I quit academia, my mother was diagnosed with advanced cancer.

After all, she nearly succumbed herself: "I decided that if I wasn't a lecturer by the age of 30 that I would quit academia, because I thought it would be too stressful being on a temporary contract when starting a family," Bridle says.

However, after the success of his book Straw Dogs he quit academia to spend his time calling out what he sees to be the most questionable myths of our age, one of which is the assumption that the Western world is ethically more advanced than elsewhere, and that its ethical progress is both irreversible and ever-growing.

However, after the success of his book Straw Dogs he quit academia to spend his time calling out what he sees to be the most questionable myths of our age, one of which being the assumption that the Western world is ethically more advanced than elsewhere, and that its ethical progress is both irreversible and ever-growing.

He now insists that his decision to quit British academia, to concentrate on writing and the US, where he has been much better received, suited him, yet there is an unmistakable relief in his voice when he says that he has been "rehabilitated" – for the past two years he has been professor of philosophy at Oxford.

He spent a few years in a graduate program in comparative literature at the University of Iowa and then, bored by academia, quit and moved to western Minnesota to write.

(She quit Washington, DC, to return to academia).

He found academia too confining and quit teaching in 1944.

I quit teaching because the culture of academia demanded that I sell out.