Quotes About Education

What my father gave me more than anything else is great tutoring and a great brain, frankly. You know, my father's brother was a top person at MIT, went to MIT, graduated from MIT, was a teacher at MIT, a professor at MIT, a great engineer. I mean, you know, I have very good genes.

My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I acquired early in life great respect for books, scholars and education.

If there is anyone who values free speech, it is a tenured professor!

The best thing about having a lady professor on campus is that it tells women students that they can do it, too.

I was a mere 29-year-old instructor at Kyoto, enjoying daily research work with some young students. Nothing had prepared me to be a professor at a major national university. Being too young and inexperienced to be a Full Professor, I was first appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry.

The majority of the research I do is archaeological research, but to me, as a professor, the most important thing is to encourage and mentor students.

I'm a professor of economics and associate head of the MIT Department of Economics.

I was a professor for 20 years, 12 of those at Emory University.

My father, a math professor in Hong Kong, worked as an electrical engineer here. My mother was an art teacher, but once we came to the United States, she went back to school and became certified as a special-education teacher.

When I was at UCLA, a professor there encouraged me to write, and so I looked into specializing in creative writing in the English Department. And through that, I started writing plays.

Some of the beauty of a university is that every professor is given a lot of autonomy over what he or she does. That's also what makes it very hard for even a very forward-thinking president to change courses.

God bless my mother - she's long gone now, but she'd work all day and go to school at night. She started out in life as a housekeeper at 15 years old, totally on her own, and she retired as a college professor. But there were some hard times. It's not easy for a woman who's only trying to do the best for her kid but who could never be home.

I learn more from my kids then I have any professor in all my life.

When I was in film school I had this great professor, Jerzy Antczak, a Polish filmmaker, and Joe Russo of the Russo Brothers were in my class. It was this kind of Easter European philosophy of motivating camera only through character and motions, and just exploring with lenses. That was the best year of my education in my life.

I'm an astrophysicist and a professor, so my day job involves manipulating intractable numbers that characterize our universe.

I was a theater major, and I remember being in college, and whenever my professor would assign me songs that I hated, I really had a hard time singing them. One time, I even faked sick so I wouldn't have to sing a song.

When I hit 50, I want to go be a professor.

I was a diction, speech and method acting professor before I became an actor.

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

Many professors tell you that you'd be good at this or that, but they don't always help you with that career path.

Both my parents are professors, and I never really saw people do any other jobs, so I didn't really know how to want a different kind of job.

Business school professors don't take selling seriously because they don't know how to sell. It's easy to talk about business theory and production time and just-in-time development. Selling is much more difficult.

My parents are professors. My sister is a Ph.D. student. My other sister has a business.