Among Quote by Ben Shapiro

Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But tenure can also be used as a club to wield…

— Ben Shapiro

Since universities are funded in large parts by grants that depend on costly research, they have every incentive to free professors from their teaching…

— Bret Weinstein

The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.

— Jack Welch

“Tenure was originally invented to protect radical professors, those who challenged the accepted order. But we don't have such people anymore at the universities,…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I don't really see what can be said about the role of faculty members, or universities, beyond the truisms voiced earlier, and their elaboration…

— Noam Chomsky

While the universities are increasingly corporatized and militarized, their governing structures are becoming more authoritarian, faculty are being devalued as public intellectuals, students are…

— Henry Giroux

College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form…

— Ken Robinson

My father was a university professor and his thing was tenure. Any time I hear a university professor say tenure, I hear the word…

— Robert Kiyosaki

I'm a tenured professor. But I'd get rid of tenure.

— Francis Fukuyama

Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were entitled to…

— Ellen Willis

One of the reasons that our colleges have gotten so expensive is because of tenure.

— Carlos Beruff