Professors Quotes
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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.
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I have always been very entrepreneurial minded. Oftentimes, while I was sitting in class listening to my professor ramble on, I would think to myself: I could be out there making money right now.
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The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just another manifestation of what our society has become.
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The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.
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I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
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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.
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Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.
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Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
