Quote by James C. Collins

This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens…

— Neal Stephenson

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

The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the Trinity. . . .

— H. L. Mencken

“No one with a thirst for knowledge goes to the university now. Half of the faculty has resigned, the other half gives courses in…

— Douglas Adams

“Faculty X is the ability to grasp the reality not simply of other times and places, but of the present moment as well.”

— Colin Wilson

“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

“For know you, child, I have that faculty which is better than any one sense, better than a perfect body, better than courage and…

— Lew Wallace

“And there was some point as a professor at Stanford and Harvard when I experienced being caught in some kind of a meaningless game…

— Ram Dass

“University departments wanted to hire sober, rational researchers and teachers. You were allowed revelatory, apocalyptic experiences only after you had tenure.”

— Richard Tillotson

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 only modern presidents to really succeed in education (in limited ways) were Eisenhower and Johnson; the former, because he had very specific needs…

— Bruce Cannon Gibney

“Not taking off his dark overcoat, lending him quite a hulking gangster look, pacing in front of the CIA’s wall of stars for its…

— Michael Wolff