Education Quote by Thomas M. Nichols

“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

“Colleges are supposed to be the calm environment in which educated men and women determine what’s true and what’s false, and where they learn…

— Thomas M. Nichols

Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were entitled to…

— Ellen Willis

“A wise student is greater than an intelligent teacher.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Some of us Teachers who consider ourselves to be smarter than our students will realise how worthless we are if we ever enter a…

— Rachitha Cabral

“When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where despite the recent proliferation of courses…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They’re people—and afraid the rest of the world will find out.”

— Daniel Keyes

“Being a student meant always looking up to someone wiser and always measuring yourself against that wisdom and knowledge.”

— Alice Steinbach

“You know what I was thinking? [Ruthie] got so excited when she was spouting this ahistorical countertextual nonsense, and I caught myself thinking, 'What…

— Orson Scott Card

The world has a rich tradition of leaders who fancy themselves smart enough to determine what the people should and shouldn't hear, and crack…

— Mary Katharine Ham

“Universities are full of knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in and the seniors take none away, and knowledge accumulates.”

— Anonymous

Every campus, of course, also has its rabble of young "liberals," who are forever making a din as they "demonstrate" for "world peash," "snivel…

— Revilo P. Oliver