Quotes About Professors

Readers have the power that professors pretend they wield. Millions of words of professorial contempt have failed to kill Kipling. Praising Shaw to the skies has been vain.

I am very sorry, but I am infinitely more intelligent than these three professors, and I therefore refuse to be examined by them. I know more about Raphael than all of you altogether.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their time comes, will manufacture professors.

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.

I was dealing with governance in both instances, and individual responsibilities, and enmities and friendship. In a university, professors and others are always vying for power, and there's really no power there. If you have any power at all, it's a nothing. It's really odd that these things should happen in a university but they do. Except in scale, the machinations for power are about the same in a university as in the Roman Empire or Washington.

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.

My parents are professors; they're intellectual. I spent a lot of time reading books. To me, everyone always looks like they do in your imagination. And in my imagination, the characters always looked like me.

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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.

When you get your powers, you learn a lot about yourself. My professors called me mad. It was time for me to stop punishing myself, and start punishing everybody else.

Your University professors are bound to preach optimism; and it is an easy and agreeable task to upset their theories.

In order not to judge unfairly one ought also to settle definitely one's expectations from this [our] point of view, and to regard, for example, even learned men, since as a rule they have become so only by the force of outward circumstances, primarily as men whom nature really intended to be tillers of the soil; indeed even professors of philosophy ought to be estimated according to this standard, and then their achievements will be found to come up to all fair expectations.

Two professors who study the science of complexity—Brenda Zimmerman of York University and Sholom Glouberman of the University of Toronto—have proposed a distinction among three different kinds of problems in the world: the simple, the complicated, and the complex.

Old professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

But, as the saying had it, old professors never die, they merely lose their faculties.

Few figures represent the foreign, particularly German influence on Progressivism better than [President Woodrow] Wilson himself. Wilson's faith that society could be bent to the will of social planners was formed at Johns Hopkins, the first American university to be founded on the German model. Virtually all of Wilson's professors had studied in Germany--as had almost every one of the school's fifty-three faculty members.

Orpah and Ruth; who will represent to us two sorts of professors of religion: Orpah, that sort that indeed make a fair profession, and seem to set out well, but dure but for a while, and then turn back; Ruth, that sort that are sound and sincere, and therefore are steadfast and persevering in the way that they have set out in.

They are simply opening up more and more schools so the system will look good on paper. It's all bluff,' said one of the professors. 'It's only education on paper. They build the building. They put up the sign. And that's it. After that they go away. They don't care about quality. They don't care if the teachers are properly trained, or if the school is fully equipped.

The answer to every "social justice" question is more taxes and regulation, say the professors.

The bias of the universities has deep historical roots. As early as the 1930s, conservatives were warning of the increasing radicalism of the college professors.

Professors consistently champion the liberal line, but why do students buy it? Why don't they resist the indoctrination efforts of the university faculty?

parents spend their hard-earned dollars sending their children to liberal colleges. Therefore, students assume, there must be some inherent merit in the views of the professors who teach there.

Professors capitalize on the profound respect students feel for them. By telling students "think for yourselves" and "don't buy what your parents tell you," the professors set themselves up as the final authority on morality, politics, and society by discarding parents as moral arbiters. And students buy into it because they are always rebelling against their parents—and in college, this is a sanctioned and blessed activity.

solution must be parenting. Bottom line: if parents do a good job teaching their children right from wrong, as I learned from my parents, when those children reach college age, they will be prepared to fight the liberal onslaught of the professors.