Like Quote by Sean Evans

“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

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do…

— Samuel Johnson

I was at a speaking engagement for MIT... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution…

— Russell Johnson

American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

A lecturer often makes you feel dumb at one end and numb at the other.

— Evan Esar

I never thought that someone would be teaching one of my fanzines. I never thought I'd be off to lecture at a college. It's…

— Kathleen Hanna

Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps Chauncey B.…

— Louis Auchincloss

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

“People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures…

— Samuel Johnson

“Most of these university types are total phonies. They’re scared to death somebody’s gonna find out they don’t know something. They all read the…

— Haruki Murakami

“Thousands of persons, many of whom never darkened the door of a college, have learned to read books that most of our college graduates…

— Stringfellow Barr

I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.

— Witold Gombrowicz