Quote by Michael Wolff

“he came from a generation where teachers were revered and respected, not ridiculed and scorned.  And, perhaps, because he didn’t quite understand them, he…

— Terri Reid

“The information he did not get was formal information. The data. The details. The options. The analysis. He didn’t do PowerPoint. For anything that…

— Michael Wolff

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

“The worst of which he could be accused during his teaching career is that he made far too great a distinction between those students…

— J.K. Rowling

“I want to be remembered as a professor who said a lot of stupid things to his students.”

— Arne Næss

I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down,…

— Anonymous

We've all had classes with a professor so bland and monotone that their lectures sound like Mitt Romney reading 'Paradise Lost' from a blown…

— Sean Evans

“I had a professor in college who returned our graded essays, walked up to the chalkboard, and wrote in huge letters: “SO WHAT?” She…

— Austin Kleon

“some students look at the problems that they're facing and they draw global conclusions from them. They say this is not just a professor…

— Shankar Vedantam

Students: did you hated when your Professors gave exams, and some of the books on the class reading list they actually wrote.

— JOHN REYES

“I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong…

— William Zinsser

With every lecture, you’re forced to look again at every choice you’ve made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all…

— Chuck Palahniuk