Professors Quotes

“A Student is the most important person ever in this school...in person, on the telephone, or by mail.
A Student is not dependent on us...we are dependent on the Student.
A Student is not an interruption of our work..the Studenti s the purpose of it. We are not doing a favor by serving the Student...the Student is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to do so.
A Student is a person who brings us his or her desire to learn. It is our job to handle each Student in a manner which is beneficial to the Student and ourselves.”
― William W. Purkey, Becoming an Invitational Leader: A New Approach to Professional and Personal Success

“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when they get disillusioned, they become the worst enemies. That’s why my KGB instructors specifically made the point: never bother with leftists. Forget about these political prostitutes. Aim higher. [...] They serve a purpose only at the stage of destabilization of a nation. For example, your leftists in the United States: all these professors and all these beautiful civil rights defenders. They are instrumental in the process of the subversion only to destabilize a nation. When their job is completed, they are not needed any more. They know too much. Some of them, when they get disillusioned, when they see that Marxist-Leninists come to power—obviously they get offended—they think that they will come to power. That will never happen, of course. They will be lined up against the wall and shot.”
― Yuri Bezmenov

“Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked. ”
― Michael Gruber, The Book of Air and Shadows

“When I was at the University of California at Berkeley, I went to some classes that must have had more than four hundred students in them. I almost always sat in the far back of the auditorium so I could read the newspaper. I remember that I stayed late one day to ask the professor a question, and when I got up to him, all I could think to myself was, 'So this is what the professor looks like.”
― Stephan Pastis, Pearls Sells Out: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury

“I mostly considered my professors idiots.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“She might recommend blowing up Big Ben and replacing it with a spun sugar poodle and Professor Meeld-Forrison would merely say, ”Mum-hum.”

Dimity Plumleigh-Teignmott.”
― Gail Carriger, Defy or Defend

“Intellect without implementation is ignorance, not intelligence.”
― Richie Norton

“Hovering somewhere between seventy and eighty years old, the Chair nestled in an office feathered with the books, papers, notes, and tchotchkes accumulated over a lifetime career devoted to the study of the Orient. He had hung an elaborate Oriental rug on his wall, in lieu, I suppose, of an actual Oriental.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“She doesn't really understand the difference between teachers and professors, except that professors know so much more than teachers. Professors are like wizards: they create the universe.”
― Seanan McGuire

“behind every cop who murders a 13-year-old child, there is a city lawyer working to keep the video secret, a prosecutor lying about it in court, a mayor giving cops more money and weapons, and a professor with a consulting firm deciding which "reform" will make the most money.

(4/15/2021 on Twitter)”
― Alec Karakatsanis

“No one should have to pass someone else's ideological purity test to be allowed to speak. University life- along with civic life- dies without the free exchange of ideas. In the face of intimidation, educators must speak up, no shut down. Ours is a position of unique responsibility: We teach people not what to think, but how to think. Realizing and accepting this has made me- an eminently replaceable, untenured, gay, mixed-race woman with PTSD- realize that no matter the precariousness of my situation, I have a responsibility to model the appreciation of difference and care of thought I try to foster in my students. If I, like so many colleagues nationwide, am afraid to say what I think, am I not complicit in the problem? [Lucia Martinez Valdivia]”
― Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

“Apparently, unlike Portnov, not all of the professors here had manners worthy of the Spanish Inquisition.”
― Marina Dyachenko, Vita Nostra

“Having studied university campus cell phone radiation, I now understand why I have found university professors to be a strange group of characters.”
― Steven Magee

“University professors are one of the most 5G irradiated professions.”
― Steven Magee

“You would think that university professors would be wise not to blatantly shaft their geniuses.”
― Steven Magee

“Being a Professor is like maintaining a charnel house, many are under your study but nobody is ready to hark”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“A classroom with twenty students and one teacher
Has twenty-one students and twenty one-teachers.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, Can I Tell You Something?

“The meeting is being called to discuss a division in our department caused by two Marxist professors who are supposedly trying to turn our proposed graduate program into a 'Critical Criminology' program. For those of you who don't know 'critical' is a code word for 'communist'.”
― Mike Adams

“I cannot consider anything. Professors in this College are machines. The Regulations will not even let us recommend our students for appointments. I am a machine, and you have worked me. I have to do --”
― H.G.Wells

“I remember one professor refusing to speak to me for several months after I published a column called 'The Campus Crusade Against Christ'.”
― Mike Adams, Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts "Womyn" on Campus

“No one else can be blamed for the failure of the education system than the education system itself, and in particular the education establishment, the Mandarin Elite. These people have made education painful and monstrous, not joyous and transformative. They have killed joy. They have turned education into the most boring undertaking possible rather than the most exciting. They should be fired en masse. Not a single one of them should be left to go on poisoning minds. There should be a total clearing out of the Mandarin class, and their total replacement by people who actually care about educating the people, rather than spouting tedious nonsense”
― Joe Dixon, The Mandarin Effect: The Crisis of Meaning

“... professors are ... intellectual terrorists. May they reap what they sow.”
― Ben Shapiro, Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth

“The best teachers and professors I have known were named; Mistake, Fail, Blunder and then, Bloom; and the best of all, we called, Perseverance.”
― RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo) – 1977

“The problem with college students is that they come into university not knowing what they love, but are handed vocabulary and concepts about their chosen passion, which equips them with rich arguments and rich words that end up fooling people they love something when they are really just passionate about someone else’s passion. Sometimes, people use knowledge as a seat belt to strap themselves in a car that they weren’t supposed to be in. They hold onto mission statements or causes and regurgitate ideas with such great articulation that you (and they) could almost believe they really loved their careers.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“PhD students are the academic world's version of indentured slaves. The only reason they get away with it is because the students all have Stockholm Syndrome, plus they're under the misapprehension that a PhD is actually worth something.”
― R.A. Spratt, Big Trouble

“Many parents, K-12 teachers, professors, and university administrators have been unknowingly teaching a generation of students to engage in the mental habits commonly seen in people who suffer from anxiety and depression... students were beginning to react to words, books, and visiting speakers with fear and anger because they had been taught to exaggerate danger, use dichotomous thinking, amplify their first emotional responses, and engage in a number of cognitive distortions. Such thought patterns directly harmed student' mental health and interfered with their intellectual development-- and sometimes the development of those around them.”
― Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

“The loss of political diversity among professor, particularly in fields that deal with politicized content, can undermine the quality and rigor of scholarly research... when a field lacks political diversity, researchers tend to congregate around questions and research methods that generally confirm their shared narrative, while ignoring questions and methods that don't offer such support.
The loss of political diversity among the faculty has negative consequences for students, too, in three ways. First, there's the problem that many college students have little or no exposure to professors from half of the political spectrum. Many students graduate with an inaccurate understanding of conservatives, politics, and much of the United States...
Second, the loss of viewpoint diversity among the faculty means that what students learn about politically controversial topics will often be "left shifted" from the truth.
[The third problem] is the risk that some academic communities- particularly those in the most progressive parts of the country- may attain such high levels of political homogeneity and solidarity that they undergo a phase change, taking on properties of a collective entity that are antithetical to the normal aims of a university... Politically homogenous communities are more susceptible to witch hunts”
― Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

“Turning Point USA created a Professor Watchlist in order to expose and document faculty members who discriminate against conservative students, promote anti-American values and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.”
― Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

“Nigeria is the only country where professors rig elections for incompetent politicians, but expel students for examination malpractices.”
― Olawale Daniel

“Gabriel: There’s absolutely no way Kalen put something inside you during the performance.

Kalen (admin): Mikel punished her for disobeying the rules of the hunt.

Moses: Remind me never to disobey Mikki.

Cian: Pretty sure he would just beat you up, Moses.


Moses: I’m not willing to take the chance.

Mikel (admin): Shut up, Moses.

Moses: Don’t come after my orifices!”
― Jane Washington, Relever