Quote by Michael Wolff

“For anything that smacked of a classroom or of being lectured to—“professor” was one of his bad words, and he was proud of never…

— Michael Wolff

“He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him; he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Information can get from a professors lecture notes and into a student's notebook without passing through the mind of either.”

— Douglas Wilson

“The professor is not merely an information dispensing machine, but a skilled navigator of a complex landscape.”

— William Badke

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

“He did it with a teacher's natural assumptions: lecturing was his responsibility, interruption his privilege.”

— Stephen King

“Teaching is not about information. It's about having an honest intellectual relationship with your students.”

— Paul Lockhart

His students were hardly in a position to tell him when he was getting windy, and he had recently noticed, as most professors did…

— Aaron Elkins

“not only was i developing my ability to apply the theoretical facts we learn in class,but i was also honing my presentation skills”

— augelicht

“My exam allowed him to show me what he had learned rather than trying to find out what he had not learned. By allowing…

— Cynthia D. Urbanski

“What little factual information I absorbed in my life was gleaned from lectures the Professor gave to Gilligan. For”

— Augusten Burroughs

“So he got up in the morning as usual, walked to classes as usual, did his darndest to sit through his lectures as usual,…

— Michelle Kan