Avarice Quote by H. L. Mencken

Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body…

— H. L. Mencken

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

— H. L. Mencken

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

— Anonymous

It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his…

— H. L. Mencken

“The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre…

— Anonymous

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

“......philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilization....but if professors can truly wield this fatal power, may it…

— Isaiah Berlin

Some of the beauty of a university is that every professor is given a lot of autonomy over what he or she does. That's…

— Sal Khan

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

— Winston Churchill

Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying. In return, he owes it to his fellow…

— Karl Popper

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

— Thomas de Quincey

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