Facts Quote by Amy Wax

To be an outspoken professor in academia is a very dangerous proposition.

— Gad Saad

A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the class and…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

“I do regard modern universities to be biologically toxic environments for healthy students.”

— Steven Magee

As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when…

— George Eliot

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

“The reality is that being controversial generates attention for a little while, but it’s usually not good for your career in the long term.”

— Alexandra Levit

Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is…

— H. L. Mencken

There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors…

— Josh Radnor

By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in serving the…

— Ben Shapiro

Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.

— Michael Gruber

Even the purest of teachers will face bitter criticism from those who feel threatened by him.

— Stephen Mitchell

I'm not a stereotypical professor type. I don't smoke a pipe and wear a tweedy jacket. I'm more like a student who stayed at…

— Patrick Rothfuss