Essence Quote by Wilbert J. McKeachie

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

— Ambrose Bierce

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

— Albert Einstein

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

— Evan Esar

It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend…

— Daniel Coit Gilman

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

— Hal Boyle

A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.

— Norbert Wiener

The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side."

— Alison King

I feel that students always learn more from each other than they do from their professor. They learn by doing and not by trying…

— Pauline Oliveros

I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately,…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures…

— Stephen Leacock

One of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests you and…

— Louis Menand

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form…

— Ken Robinson