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Quotes About Faculty

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
~ John Ciardi
I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.
~ Elena Kagan
Every university has its problems. The issues range from lack of amenities, plagiarism, poor quality research, sexual harassment, faculty moonlighting, and faulty and biased recruitment.
~ Sanjaya Baru
Of course, MIT was notable not just for its faculty but also for its students. And, facing such extremely bright kids as a rookie teacher was something like being thrown to the wolves.
~ Eric Maskin
Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
~ Aristotle
Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.
~ Hermann von Helmholtz
As far as YU faculty and students are concerned, the love for Israel is very strong. Probably about three thousand of our graduates have settled in Israel. On average, every year 650 male and female students study in Israel for a minimum of one year.
~ Norman Lamm
We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.
~ Roy Romer
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.
~ Roy Romer
The ability to simply look without motive is missing in the world today. Everybody is a psychological creature, wanting to assign meaning to everything. Seeking is not about looking for something. It is about enhancing your perception, your very faculty of seeing.
~ Sadhguru
Everybody is a psychological creature, wanting to assign meaning to everything. Seeking is not about looking for something. It is about enhancing your perception, your very faculty of seeing.
~ Sadhguru
A man should always have these two rules in readiness; the one, to do only whatever the reason of the ruling and legislating faculty may suggest for the use of men; the other, to change thy opinion, if there is any one at hand who sets thee right and moves thee from any opinion. But this change of opinion must proceed only from a certain persuasion, as of what is just or of common advantage, and the like, not because it appears pleasant or brings reputation. Hast
~ Marcus Aurelius
No te limites en adelante a respirar el aire que te rodea, sino participa dese ahora en la sabiduría de la inteligencia que lo abarca todo, por que esta facultad intelectiva no menos se difundió por todas partes ni menos se introdujo en cada ser capaz de atraerla, que el aire en el ser capaz de respirarlo.
~ Marcus Aurelius
For two things be ever ready: First, to do that only which reason, the sovereign and legislative faculty, suggests for the good of mankind: Secondly, to change your course on meeting any one who can correct and alter your opinion. But let the change be made because you really believe it to be in the interest of justice or the public good, or such like, and not with any view to pleasure or glory for yourself.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.
~ Koichi Tanaka
In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.
~ Koichi Tanaka
Sometimes, Kate was downright astonished by how much the women in the faculty lounge sounded like the little girls nattering away in Room 4. It
~ Anne Tyler
In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.
~ Audre Lorde
He that cannot contract the sight of his mind, as well as disperse and dilate it, wanteth a great faculty.
~ bacon francis vi
L'imagination n'est pas, comme le suggère l'étymologie, la faculté de former des images de la réalité ; elle est la faculté de former des images qui dépassent la réalité, qui chantent la réalité. Elle est une faculté de surhumanité.
~ Gaston Bachelard
I sow all sorts of seeds, and get no great harvest from any one of them. I am cursed with susceptibility in every direction, and effective faculty in none. I care for painting and music; I care for classic literature, and mediæval literature, and modern literature; I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
~ George Eliot
The growth of higher feeling within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength. We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than a painter or a musician can wish to return to his cruder manner, or a philosopher to his less complete formula.
~ George Eliot
I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.
~ Clark Kerr
It is not the object of your search that is important; it is the faculty of looking. The ability to simply look without motive is missing in the world today. Everybody is a psychological creature, wanting to assign meaning to everything. Seeking is not about looking for something. It is about enhancing your perception, your very faculty of seeing.
~ Sadhguru