Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in… — Curtis White Copy Share Image
Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both… — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
In those days [the 1790s],the students paid their professors directly for the lectures-typically about three guineas a class (a guinea was worth… — Joshua Kendall Copy Share Image
College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I believe in research. Each movie at Pixar involves research with college professors or taking trips to learn as much as we… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead. — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone… — Mercedes Ruehl Copy Share Image
Professor Trelawney: "Everything went pitch-black and the next thing I knew I was being hurled headfirst out of the room!" Harry Potter:… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The strike and its outcome had an enormous impact on the system of education and on our lives as well. The strike… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
So,” sneered Fudge, recovering himself, “you intend to take on Dawlish, Shacklebolt, Dolores, and myself single-handed, do you, Dumbledore?” “Merlin’s beard, no,”… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I went to a girls high school and I went to a women's college and when I first started teaching at Georgetown… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
I remember classes in college where the professor was espousing certain theories about how blacks were inherently less intelligent. But I learned… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Indignant reply to the blatent sex discrimination expressed in a colleague's opposition when Hilbert proposed appointing Emmy Noether as the first woman… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Professor von Mises has a splendid analytical mind and an admirable passion for liberty; but as a student of human nature he… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, a new report says only 7% of scientists believe in God. That is right. And the reason they gave was… — James Traficant Copy Share Image
I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The work that I wanted to create wasn't being done then. I was too much concerned about fellow students, professors, institutional style… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
“So limp of brain that for them to conceive an idea is to risk a haemorrhage. So limp of body that their… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Even being too good at teaching is risky at research universities; the joke is that a 'teacher of the year' award is… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Jason] faltered when he looked at Leo, who was mimicking taking notes with an air pencil. “Go on, Professor Grace!” he said,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books… I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
Professor McGonagall: "Why don't you confer with Mr. Finnigan? As I recall, he has a particular proclivity for pyrotechnics. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Just read the farm relief bill. It's just a political version of Einstein's last theory. If a farmer could understand it, he… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute. — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
After years of studying French in school, one of my professors said he'd really appreciate it if I didn't take any more… — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
“One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the… — Daniel Amory Copy Share Image
Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
We have it in our heads that women only need to take up a certain amount of space and then we've done… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with… — James Cook Copy Share Image
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image