Quotes About Education

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

I was close with some of my old professors.

Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time.

Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

Very few parents keep up with who the top professors are or whose classes their kids are taking, partially because most undergraduates interact more commonly with graduate students.

When I became a professor of physics circa 1991, I doubled the number of female professors of physics in the U.K.

In an increasingly complex world, with courseloads becoming heavier and heavier, shouldn't we be opting for more accountability when it comes to our professors, not less?

The thing that was great about San Jose State was, I got connected with some very good professors.

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.

When we go out to the university, the professors always say, 'Tell these students about your five-year plan and your 10-year plan,' and I say, 'Gee, we're lucky if we have a year plan.'

The faculty, from adjunct professors to deans, tell you what to do, what to say, and more ominously, what to think.

Some of the perceptions from my professors were that I was less than or that I wouldn't be able to compete or wouldn't be able to meet the same bar as my peers. I don't want that for my daughter or for any of the girls who come into our program.

It took me forever to leave Chicago. I went to Columbia College because I wasn't ready to leave! My professors had to kick me in the pants to move to Los Angeles.

All of us, whether we are ignorant of philosophy or professors of philosophy, find it easier to follow dogma than to think.

I respect teachers and professors.

I did a four-year degree in five years. I have awesome support from my team and my professors. Everyone's super on board and that makes my life a bit easier.

At first, I simply wanted to get a basic understanding of sign language, but as time went on, I really got the bug and wanted to become proficient so that I could make good use of my skills.

We've done education nonprofit through our history, and maybe the profit motive will be helpful.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

I lose around a couple of crores every year on the school, but even if I was to make profit from it, I would never use it for myself. I'd plough every penny back into improving facilities for the school. Just as I do with the cricket academies I run around the country. These are not for making money; for that, I have other avenues.

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

I never understood how, when if so many businesses can make a profit delivering services and products to state education, you could not take it further and allow for-profit operators to run some schools. Most people care about good outcomes, not whether something is for-profit or not.