Professors Quotes

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. Maya Angelou
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The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand. Louis L'Amour
Education Library Post Assume Other Way Has-Been Post Office Idea Reach Schools Tied Within Been Office Anyone Available Many Even Professors Universities
People are full of great advice... Professors, parents, friends mean well... But in the end, the person driving this thing called life is you. Listen to you. Spend time being alone. Learn your worth. Dream. And never forget where you came from. Brooke Baldwin
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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality. James Joyce
Will Busy Way Immortality Only Arguing Put Puzzles Over Centuries Meant Many Keep Professors
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. Barack Obama
Friendship Black Active Carefully Structural More Poets Marxist Students Performance Mistaken Foreign Feminists Friends Sellout Politically Being Avoid Chose Professors
Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception. George Washington
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If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books. Anna Quindlen
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In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action. Ben Rattray
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Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But tenure can also be used as a club to wield against the powerless. Ben Shapiro
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy. Camille Paglia
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But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so. Donald Cargill
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Many professors tell you that you'd be good at this or that, but they don't always help you with that career path. Katherine Johnson
Good You Path Tell Always Help Many Professors Career Career Path
You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street. Lapo Elkann
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine. Noam Chomsky
Work World Academic Most Clerical Lot Done Professors Routine
Harvard prides itself on its diversity - economic, racial, social, geographical - but it remains intellectually segregated. It's not what conservative commentators seem to imagine - a bastion of liberal professors force-feeding radical opinions to a naive student body. Alexandra Petri
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The professors at Harvard are smarter and more world-renowned, and so your child will learn from a pre-eminent scholar who is a leader in his or her field. Some of Harvard's professors are even famous. Andrew Yang
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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. Andrew Yang
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I grew up with parents who were English professors at Wichita State University, and we were more liberal-minded as a family than most of the people I hung out with in Wichita. During summers, we went off to Telluride, Colorado, where I've returned every summer since I was born. Antonya Nelson
Family People Parents Every State Summer State University Summers Hung Out Born More Colorado Since Most Returned Were Off Up Than Where Grew English Who Professors University
I have three brothers and one sister, and I'm the third child. Sometimes people say, 'It's only natural you would become a writer - your parents were English professors.' But my four siblings were brought up in the exact same household, and no one else became a writer or an English professor. Antonya Nelson
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Research professors don't watch a whole lot of TV. Austan Goolsbee
Research TV Lot Whole Professors Watch
By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in serving the student body are less likely to respond favorably to criticism, and are more likely to feel the freedom to intimidate or harass those with opposing viewpoints. Ben Shapiro
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There is no greater way to ensure that universities remain a hotbed of leftist thought than to guarantee that professors knight their own successors. But that's basically how the Ph.D. system works, with sitting professors approving the work of would-be professors. Ben Shapiro
Work Thought Own Way Approving Ensure System Would-Be Remain Knight Greater How Leftist Than Sitting Works Professors Basically Guarantee Universities
Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah. Bill Dedman
Business School Herself Only Name Names Well Call Well Known Known Oprah Brand Business School Professor Professors Her
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.' Bruce Nordstrom
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I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. Camille Paglia
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Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language. Camryn Manheim
Family Language Degree College Parents Everyone Fabulous Some Something Both Know Another Because Get Professors
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