I'm nomadic. Even when I'm a visiting professor here at the City University of Hong Kong, in this campus flat, I'm constantly… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever in a… — Ken Jennings Copy Share Image
One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
If you take a look at places like Harvard, it's striking. In the early ,50s, I think there were a handful of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
(T)he most important reason American leftists love France is that French elites say bad things about America. French intellectuals call us racist,… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
As professor in the Polytechnic School in Zürich I found myself for the first time obliged to lecture upon the elements of… — Richard Dedekind Copy Share Image
Of course we still want to know you!" Harry said, staring at Hagrid. "You don't think anything that Skeeter cow - sorry,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I left the Beatles, I made an album called McCartney that I played everything on. And it was kind of a… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Evaluation and coaching get tangled together. When this occurs, the noise of evaluation drowns out coaching efforts. Think of this like a… — Sheila Heen Copy Share Image
A novel can educate to some extent, but first a novel has to entertain. That's the contract with the reader: you give… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Many of these failures can be laid at the feet of the awful state of American higher education, and especially the way… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
When we ask what ought to be the relative remunerations of a nurse or a butcher, or a coal miner and a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Do you think that Gwendolyn Brooks would give an award to someone who hated Black women, the lie that was circulated throughout… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
OH NO YOU DON’T, LADDIE!” Harry spun around. Professor Moody was limping down the marble staircase. His wand was out and it… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
We heard from a professor at an evangelical college who wore a hijab in solidarity with Muslim women. Now we have a… — Ari Shapiro Copy Share Image
I do less of that stuff now because I figured out that when I was writing things I didn't care about, it… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak… — Connie Francis Copy Share Image
What is Camille Paglia doing, writing that an actress as gifted as Anne Heche has the mental depth of a pancake? How… — Clive James Copy Share Image
I also liked it when professors assigned us stories that they love. In general, I liked workshops more when they were more… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The Indian diaspora is not a capital-accumulating diaspora. The Indian diaspora is doctors, lawyers, professors. Or newspaper sellers. They are basically trade-… — Jairam Ramesh Copy Share Image
Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational… — Edwin Boring Copy Share Image
I'm a pacifist. I believe there are ways to solve the world's problems. Instead of putting all this money to create arms,… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the… — Jeff Stilson Copy Share Image
My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever.… — Gabriel Mann Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The great thing about working out at a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
My parents love it! They're on set. They make cameos in the movie. My father is a psycho-analyst and a professor at… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I lived in lower-income neighborhoods in the inner city. Across the street were dark parts of the world. I've experienced the gamut,… — Kenna Copy Share Image
My students often say, 'My roommate read this story and really liked it,' and it's hard to convince them that there are… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I'm noticing an exciting trend around the country: a resurgence of interest in Christian apologetics (the defense of the faith). This is… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She – er, got a bit shirty with me.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Having a super-brain does not suddenly make you a dictator of the world. So we don't have to fear the scenarios of… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
[Albert] Hoxie, my Western Civilization professor. I had him in my freshman year and he opened up an extraordinary world to me… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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