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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
Education
Ignorance
People
School
Mother
College
Some People
Understanding
Intolerant
Unable
Must
Some
More
Said
Always
Educated
Go
Were
Intelligent
Than
Illiteracy
Professors
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
Life
Alone
Time
Great
You
People
Worth
Parents
Advice
Spend
Dream
Never
Driving
Never Forget
Well
Learn
Came
End
Friends
Person
Forget
Listen
Being
Where
Being Alone
In The End
Mean
Your
Full
Professors
Thing
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
Myself
Church
Christianity
Liable
Worship
Easiest
Direct
Seem
Shall
Exception
Road
Most
Am
Least
Mode
Any
Heaven
Being
Which
Them
Bigot
Professors
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.
Anna Quindlen
God
People
Books
Harvard
Magazine
Invented
Had
New
She
Review
York
New York
Meant
Appear
Professors
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
Change
Problem
Problems
College
Action
Believe
Awareness
Could
Had
Part
Simply
Failed
Disappointed
Identify
Always
Covered
Lectures
Role
Converting
Social
Them
Social Problems
Many
Professors
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
Thought
Club
Way
Individualistic
Tenure
Powerless
Protect
Also
Historically
Against
Used
Professors
Defended
Wield
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
Life
Knowledge
Culture
Problem
Whatever
Humanities
Our
Impact
Direct
Between
Mass
Mass Media
Policy
Leftist
America
American
Which
Public
Little
American Life
Fantasies
Public Policy
Gap
Serious
Media
Professors
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
You
Fool
Generation
Champion
Think
This Generation
Valiant
Say
Though
Ministers
Go
Die
Unfaithful
Lukewarm
Professors
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
Life
You
Travel
People
School
Down
President
Everyone
Cleaner
School Teachers
Learn
Always
Walking
Just
Ordinary
Just Walking
Ordinary People
Teachers
Professors
Street
Need
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
Conservative
Diversity
Radical
Liberal
Harvard
Seem
Segregated
Economic
Remains
Student
Student Body
Naive
Opinions
Geographical
Intellectually
Itself
Social
Racial
Body
Professors
Imagine
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
Will
Leader
Field
Harvard
Some
More
Scholar
Smarter
Learn
His
Child
Famous
Your
Your Child
Who
Even
Professors
Her
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
Parents
Few
Top
Kids
Classes
More
Students
Taking
Most
Because
Up
Very
Graduate
Graduate Students
Interact
Commonly
Who
Keep
Whose
Professors
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
You
Natural
People
Sometimes
Three
Parents
Become
Sister
Else
Say
Would
Exact
People Say
Brothers
Brought
Only
Writer
No-One
Household
Became
Were
Up
Child
Same
Your
English
Professor
Professors
Four
Third
Sibling
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
Life
Freedom
Criticism
Giving
Power
Feeling
Opposing
Too
Intimidate
Those
Respond
Jobs
More
Student
Student Body
Feel
Likely
Create
Body
Harass
Viewpoints
Less
Uninterested
Who
Many
Professors
Among
Serving
Universities
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
Year
Say
Out
Tell
Gee
About
Students
Always
Go
Five-Year
Plan
Your
Lucky
Professors
University
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
Criticism
Despise
Phony
Over
Academic
Years
Rhetoric
Which
European
Film
Professors
Film Criticism
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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