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


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SIMONE WEIL The program lets students get an understanding of professors outside the classroom. The experience s...
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JAMES KELLARIS There is no greater way to ensure that universities remain a hotbed of leftist thought than to guara...
BEN SHAPIRO Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
STEPHEN FRY We respect not only professors and experts but also technologists who have their own inventions,
WEN JIABAO The discussion is a result of the boycott from last spring. [Students] didn't think that they were u...
ADAM MARCOUX every professor secretly thinks that what the world needs is a good, solid lecture--from him, of cou...
GREGORY BENFORD Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.
GEORGE GIVOT Cultivate connections [and] talk to your professors.
HEATHER CUNNINGHAM Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor de...
YVOR WINTERS Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
THOMAS CARLYLE Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead.
SINCLAIR LEWIS I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of,...
STEPHEN AMBROSE Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Some are professors and others are possessors.
LAWRENCE KENNEDY (Applying early or contacting professors) shows interest.
JUSTIN DOTY Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian m...
RICHARD MENTOR JOHNSON Professors already account for the plus or minus in their own grading system.
TIM GALLAGHER Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're somet...
ERICH SEGAL It is a great satisfaction for many professors if their mentees choose to remain at the university.
ERALDO BANOVAC It is a great satisfaction for many professors if their mentees choose to remain at the university
ERALDO BANOVAC The three sexes are men, women, and professors.
J. E. SPINGARN Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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MIKHAIL BULGAKOV The world has too few modest fry cooks and far too many self-important professors.
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MICHAEL GRUBER We have some of these teams that are made up entirely of professors. We have two teams that are made...
JIM GRAY I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than prof...
NOAM CHOMSKY Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.
DAVID HOROWITZ Life is a thorough university; pain and hardship are its distinguished professors.
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BEN SHAPIRO Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disa...
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KATE KLISE There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers
HENRY DAVID THOREAU You can't get a real education if your professors are only giving you one side of the story. You als...
DAVID HOROWITZ We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
CARL SANDBURG Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
HAL BOYLE Women were professors, lawyers and judges. They were journalists, writers and poets.
ANGELA KING Political scientists and professors are the new clergy; the clergy of oppression.
A.E. SAMAAN The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist pol...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY There's a real difference of what one believed was one's chief responsibility between Americ...
CHEN-NING YANG Breaking into a professors office to steal papers and tests is an example of a reason why a student ...
FRAN COHEN I'm going to go see some of my teammates. Say what's up to the coaches, probably go see some profess...
DAN ORLOVSKY We talk to them about the impression they make on their professors, and how they should not go to th...
C.J. WOOLLUM We can sit there and the professors say that we have a voice, but they don't have to listen to us, t...
JAMES REILLY Somehow, all the talk about tenure and anthropology had given her visions of a thick-walled, librari...
MIRA JACOB Of course he had a female following. Was there anything college girls found sexier than being told w...
MIRA JACOB I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
JACK STEINBERGER In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professo...
NOAM CHOMSKY The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
TRISTAN TZARA Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
HAL BOYLE Everything was very old; no software, no Internet, and their computer science program consisted of p...
KJELL RYE I think most students think that most professors play golf or watch sports and drink beer when they ...
JAMES KELLARIS We will talk to anybody -- people who can manufacture the drug, and are able to manufacture it faste...
FRANZ HUMER One of the reasons these programs are so hard to get into is because of the lack of professors.
JEN GREEN There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They fo...
JOSH RADNOR Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
JAMES BROUGHTON Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college profess...
MAYA ANGELOU Right now we're trying to work with faculty and professors about what to do with our classes.
LESLIE JENSEN Most finance professors in the back room, where their name isn't quoted, would tell you they think t...
IVO WELCH A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Pr...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Pr...
CAMILLE PAGLIA Universities are reluctant to update their syllabus as per industry requirement, not because their s...
AMIT KALANTRI Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. ...
KARL BARTH I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all ...
SIR KEN ROBINSON توی مدرسه ما هیچ وقت فاجعه ای رخ نداد، نابسامان وحشتناک...
KURT TUCHOLSKY Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They hav...
CHRIS HEDGES I think things that i shouldn't.I dream things that i shouldn't.I want things that i shouldn't and i...
H.M. WARD The professors here have been real interesting, and they're helping me get my foot in the door,
STEWART ADAMS You professors, what do you teach your students? Do you instill in them the spirit of possession?
SUNDAY ADELAJA The professors must not prevent us from realizing that history is fun, and that the most bizarre thi...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Professors have been threatened. Doctors have been killed in their clinics. Killing has become commo...
AMER HASSAN FAYED We're so close to Florida Tech that you get the children of professors and students. We benefit from...
ELIUD NIEVES Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name her...
BILL DEDMAN We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democ...
DANIEL GREENBERG Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But...
BEN SHAPIRO Khaki trousers soon became the province of hipsters like Jack Kerouac and Miles Davis. They were tak...
ROGER STONE In college, I used to underline sentences that struck me, that made me look up from the page. They w...
JHUMPA LAHIRI President Bush has again ignored highly qualified Latino judges, attorneys and law professors who co...
ANN MARIE TALLMAN The faculty, from adjunct professors to deans, tell you what to do, what to say, and more ominously,...
BETSY DEVOS You cannot write an accurate history of The Holocaust without accounting for the Harvard students an...
A.E. SAMAAN At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with prof...
YARA SHAHIDI If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an in...
JOYCE CAROL OATES Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless an...
ISAAC NEWTON The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no c...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in ...
ALBERT CAMUS After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in ...
THOMAS CARLYLE GWS is a place where students can find a niche, and find community in such a large university. Stude...
MAUREEN MADDEN I'm the same age as some of my professors, ... But coming in to teaching later in life gives me an e...
JEFF EVANS I've talked to students from Ivy League colleges who don't know their professors well enough to ask ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Ann Arbor News wrote the first story. After that, the company business expanded, and professors star...
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SIMONE WEIL I dated someone in the '90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, ...
HANNAH SIMONE Before a big event, I usually go to church and light a candle for St. Sebastian, who is the patron s...
SIMONE BILES I'm just a really big fan of street style. When I went to New York for Fashion Week, it was grea...
HANNAH SIMONE Maggie squeezes my hand. It’s a silent message that everything will be okay. Somehow I believe her...
SIMONE ELKELES Want to get in trouble with me, Carlos?
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