Top 100 Quotes About Professors
#1. Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.
Derek Bok
#2. Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.
Matthew Henry
#3. Rachel looked annoyed. "Do you think he's embarrassed by us?"
"More likely he's embarrassed by her," said Gabriel. "She's probably a stripper."
"Professors in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." Rachel glared at her brother and stormed out.
Sylvain Reynard
#4. I'm noticing an exciting trend around the country: a resurgence of interest in Christian apologetics (the defense of the faith). This is a reaction to the current attacks on the essentials of Christianity that are coming from militant atheists, radical professors, and Internet gadflies.
Lee Strobel
#5. We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy.
Daniel Greenberg
#6. Education isn't something your professors make for you. It's something you make for yourself.
Lance Olsen
#7. We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.
John Archibald Wheeler
#8. If the students see that rules are for everyone ... for professors too, not just for poor helpless students who get nothing but suffering out of the system ... why, the positive effects on school discipline should be tremendous.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#9. In film schools of the future, professors will teach 'Tammy' as an object lesson in Making Everything Go Wrong.
Richard Corliss
#10. If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.
Joyce Carol Oates
#11. There are thirty to forty thousand left-wing professors in the United States who are racists, murderers, sexual deviants and supporters of Al-Qaeda.
Pat Robertson
#12. I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
#13. Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.
Morris Kline
#14. Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.
Phyllis Schlafly
#15. Some boys go to college and eventually succeed in getting out. Others go to college and never succeed in getting out. The latter are called professors.
H.L. Mencken
#16. I try not to deal with people's hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did.
George Weinberg
#17. After I did 'Orchids,' I enrolled back in film school and did a million and a half workshops and worked with great professors and people, trying to hopefully get better.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#18. Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
Pankaj Mishra
#19. Today, teachers tend to look for their students' intellectual strengths, so they can cultivate them. But a century ago, professors tended to look for their students' moral weaknesses, so they could correct them.
David Brooks
#20. Christ did not appoint professors, but followers. If Christianity ... is not reduplicated in the life of the person expounding it, then he does not expound Christianity, for Christianity is a message about living and can only be expounded by being realized in men's lives.
Soren Kierkegaard
#21. I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.
Walt Disney
#22. This is not Tolstoy. I don't want to know what critics and professors think of what I'm writing. It might hurt my feelings.
Lisa Kleypas
#23. Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
Hal Boyle
#24. I actually came to New York when I was 12 and did ballet school for a little while. I was being groomed to be professional, and a lot of the professors and teachers there were drawn to me and thought that I could become a professional ballerina.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
#26. I'd compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play the roles of trainers, giving people access to the equipment (books, labs, our expertise) and after that, it is our job to be demanding.
Randy Pausch
#27. I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.
John Hench
#28. Scholars love knowledge.
Philosophers love wisdom.
The most knowledgeable become professors.
The most wise become sages.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#29. Misquotation is quotology's swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It's a mess we must wade into.
Willis Regier
#30. After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
Thomas Carlyle
#31. Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.
Ludwig Von Mises
#32. My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.
Michelle Obama
#33. This country hates professors. It likes Toby Keith - 'I'm gonna put a boot in their ass.' If you don't do that, somehow you can't be strong.
Bill Maher
#34. There's a real difference of what one believed was one's chief responsibility between American professors and Chinese professors. This was vividly revealed to me when I compared what I could learn in Chicago and what I could learn in China.
Chen-Ning Yang
#35. Businessmen learn the way businessmen are supposed to be. Professors learn the way professors are supposed to be. Construction workers learn how construction workers are supposed to be. They spend their lives trying to be what they're supposed to be and being scared they aren't. Quiet desperation.
Robert B. Parker
#36. Although I loved working on technology - I've always been a computer geek at heart - my professors encouraged me to get a real-world job working with customers.
Marc Benioff
#37. How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing ... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
#38. They decided to allow their baby to be born. What they did not realize is that they themselves were the ones who would be 'born,' infants in a new world where magic is commonplace, Harvard professors are the slow learners, and retarded babies are the master teachers.
Martha N. Beck
#39. Philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilization ... but if professors can truly wield this fatal power, may it not be that only other professors, or, at least, other thinkers can alone disarm them?
Isaiah Berlin
#40. I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith.
William Shakespeare
#41. Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.
J.R. Moehringer
#42. I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.
Shimon Peres
#43. Priests, professors, masters, you are wrong to turn me over to Justice. I have never belonged to this people. I have never been Christian. I am of the race that sang under torture. I do not understand your laws. I have no moral sense, I am a brute.
Arthur Rimbaud
#44. In a comprehensive analysis of data on more than half a million professors, the education experts John Hattie and Herbert Marsh found that "the relationship between teaching and research is zero.
Anonymous
#45. Schopenhauer's Will-to-live, commendable as it may seem as a hypothesis, is too overwrought in the proving to be anything more than another intellectual labyrinth for specialists in perplexity. Comparatively, Zapffe's principles are non-technical and could never arouse the passion of professors
Thomas Ligotti
#46. Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#47. The sporting houses needed professors, and we had so many different styles that ... it wouldn't make any difference that you just came from ... whatever your tunes were over there, we played them in New Orleans.
Jelly Roll Morton
#48. The company I invested in is probably a leader in that area. They're a company called Second Spectrum, which happens to be based in LA but was started by two USC computer-science professors. It's filled with guys who love sports, who played sports, but really look like programmers.
Steve Ballmer
#49. Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
Sinclair Lewis
#50. I only have a Bachelor's Degree but I've had professors who have instilled this kind of academic rigor in me where I don't make any generalizations or closed statements. There always has to be room for interpretation.
Ayshay
#51. He shall rise up and shut the door, it will be in vain for mere professors to knock, and cry Lord, Lord open unto us, for that same door which shuts in the wise virgins will shut out the foolish for ever. Lord, shut me in by Thy grace.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#52. I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
Noam Chomsky
#53. The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.
Soren Kierkegaard
#54. College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
P. J. O'Rourke
#55. Q: What literary complexities do you find most interesting? That is, what do you like most to "solve," so to speak, as a novelist?
A: One wishes to create characters who will speak directly to the minds of comparative literature professors and intelligent book reviewers.
Gilbert Sorrentino
#56. In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
Randall Kennedy
#57. Political scientists and professors are the new clergy; the clergy of oppression.
A.E. Samaan
#58. Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.
Richard M. Nixon
#59. "Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool."
Calvin Trillin
#60. I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that is the only way of insuring one's immortality.
James Joyce
#61. Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.
Thomas Carlyle
#62. Some of the things I liked in my years as a student in workshops: the occasional in-class prompt; discussions about what it means to be a writer in the world; professors who are brutally honest and encouraging at the same time (this is a tough one).
Mary J. Miller
#63. Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading answers.
Terry Pratchett
#64. It were well for many professors if instead of following their own devices, and cutting out new paths of thought for themselves, they would enquire for the good old ways of God's own truth, and beseech the Holy Ghost to give them sanctified understandings and teachable spirits.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#65. With a feeling of intense disgust you kick the mass of rubbish into a corner and go home, your head full of revolutionary schemes to abolish the divine right of professors to ask questions without the consent of the questioned.
Helen Keller
#66. I liked Columbia, but it was like high school in that there was this big social world that I was not part of. I existed on the side, far away. That might be temperamental, my own fear of large groups, more than anything else. But I had a handful of professors who meant a lot to me.
Graham Moore
#67. Knowledge is the name professors give to the confusion they create.
Marty Rubin
#68. In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers that we give to full professors, this one act alone would revitalize the nation's schools.
Ernest L. Boyer
#69. She flashed me the evil eye, which I found spooky that college professors could do every bit as manically as any grade school teacher.
Elle Klass
#70. In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action.
Ben Rattray
#71. You cannot write an accurate history of The Holocaust without accounting for the Harvard students and professors that help make the science an acceptable world-wide movement.
A.E. Samaan
#72. Schools - play the race card incessantly against their fellow students and their professors, leading to an atmosphere of nervous self-censorship.
Anonymous
#73. My experience dealing with professors has taught me that educated people have the ability to demean a person with a single glance.
Ge Fei
#74. Imagine what the world might have been like if Larry and Sergey instead became professors or took a job at Microsoft.
Jared Tame
#75. There are so many reasons, but a big reason is that the literary world is simply too white. When there are more professors of color being employed by these institutions maybe there will be some change in the student populations.
Porochista Khakpour
#76. College professors have two bad traits. They are logical
and they are easily flattered.
Gertrude Stein
#77. It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.
Page Smith
#78. The Central Propaganda Department is the highest-ranking censorship agency in China. And it has control over everything from the appointment of newspaper editors to university professors to the way that films are cut and distributed.
Evan Osnos
#79. In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
Noam Chomsky
#80. As our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called dillettanti, physicians, jurists, and so forth.Lamenting the fragmentary time left to a professor has remaining after fulfilling his teaching duties.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
#81. I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
Camille Paglia
#82. Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.
David Horowitz
#83. I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
David Eddings
#84. Relatively, there are many scientists who believe in God. And in Oxford, where I am the Professor, there are more professors like me, who believe in God, than you think. There are not dozens of them, but they are there, and in Cambridge too, and elsewhere. We are not in a tiny minority.
John Lennox
#85. Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.
Jules De Goncourt
#86. Professors stare down from their podiums; that's their insecurity.
Marty Rubin
#88. Two more women sat, ready to judge her. She thought of all the times she'd imagined her audition for Juilliard. The people in front of her were not Juilliard professors, but
Diane Chamberlain
#89. Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight.
Camille Paglia
#90. Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples.
Wilbert J. McKeachie
#91. Certain people, such as shamans, witch doctors, practitioners of Eastern religions, New Age gurus or professors of the occult on university faculties are examples of the kind of people who may have much more extensive knowledge of the spirit world than most Christians have.
C. Wagner
#92. The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them free, with some of the best professors in their respective fields.
Don Tapscott
#93. There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.
Josh Radnor
#94. I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.
John Piper
#95. Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire.
Edwin Boring
#96. I didn't do too well until my second year, when I realized that there were no right or wrong answers and that my professors were interested only in how well I could develop an argument.
Joe Jamail
#97. Professors have a lot of power."
I almost smiled. "Even medieval history professors?"
"Especially medieval history professors," he assured me.
"Knights on horseback and all that?"
A responding smile tugged at his mouth. "And damsels in distress.
Nina Lane
#98. It is from Italy that we are flinging this to the world, our manifesto of burning and overwhelming violence, with which we today establish " Futurism ," for we intend to free this nation from its fetid cancer of professors, archaeologists, tour guides, and antiquarians.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
#99. If you want to find the cool, anti-establishment rebels who don't answer to The Man on college campuses today, you have to go to a meeting of the College Republicans. They are rebelling against at least 99 percent of their professors.
Ann Coulter
#100. It only confirmed what I'd always thought - that for all their education university professors can't even imagine political developments having any effect on their careers : they consider themselves untouchable.
Michel Houellebecq
