Quote by Leonard Mlodinow

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

One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of…

— Jane Jacobs

“If the students see that rules are for everyone... for professors too, not just for poor helpless students who get nothing but suffering out…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

We do our universities a disservice when we brand them as a lost cause. There are some frightfully honest students out there, and when…

— Ravi Zacharias

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

— Thomas Sowell

Nothing annoys academics more than pointing out how little time they actually spend teaching students.

— Charlie Sykes

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.

— Eric Hoffer

If the professor doesn't show up to class in the first 15 minutes, you get to leave. Somebody make that a law, please.

— Anonymous

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at…

— Max Beerbohm

In the modern university, no act of good teaching goes unpunished.

— Charlie Sykes

I can remember the day when all that a professor was supposed to do was to mark "C minus" on students' examination papers, then…

— Robert Benchley

“In Leipzig [in the 14th century], the university found it necessary to promulgate a rule against throwing stones at the professors. As late as…

— Leonard Mlodinow