professors quotes

Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other ‚studies‘ courses.

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many 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.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

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.

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.