Education Quote by Phil Knight

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

— Eric Allin Cornell

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

— Erich Segal

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from…

— Anonymous

I'm not a plumber who accidentally blew up or a math professor who accidentally backed into notoriety. I have a master's from Yale drama,…

— Adam Richman

“Some are professors and others are possessors.”

— Lawrence Kennedy

I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them what was…

— Winston Churchill

Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.

— David Horowitz

What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

— Niall Ferguson

“surveys show that over 90 percent of professors believe that their teaching is above average,”

— Derek Bok

The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

I grew up near the University of Michigan, so we'd sneak into college parties. That's where my acting started - lying about the professors…

— Mircea Monroe