#professor

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#clear #cold #dead #like #literature

You don't say to a university professor who is immersed in a particular subject that they should get a life. They are encouraged to enjoy their subject and to pass it on. ↗

— Magnus Magnusson

#enjoy #get #get a life #immersed #life

I try not to look like a university man here....My fellow-guests think of a university degree as a disgraceful preliminary to the blood-sucking life of the bourgeoisie. A sign, moreover, that a man has to earn his own living. ↗

— Eilís Dillon

#professor #death

His music was an outlet of that romantic energy and sensitivity. ↗

— Kailin Gow

#alpha-male #college #erotica #kailin-gow #music

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#government #had #hadn #hands-on #i

I think things that i shouldn't.I dream things that i shouldn't.I want things that i shouldn't and it's all because of one thing-- I do care about you. ↗

— H.M. Ward

#forbidden-love #professors #dreams

I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to “surround yourself with people who are better than you,” and I was now living that mantra. ↗

— Kimberly Novosel

#good-people #growing-up #inspirational #learning #lessons

A profound impression was created by the discourses of Professor GN Chakravarti and Mrs Besant, who is said to have risen to unusual heights of eloquence, so exhilarating were the influences of the gathering. Besides those who represented our society and religions, especially Vivekananda, VR Gandhi, Dharmapala, captivated the public, who had only heard of Indian people through the malicious reports of interested missionaries, and were now astounded to see before them and hear men who represented the ideal of spirituality and human perfectibility as taught in their respective sacred writings. ↗

— Henry Olcott

#captivated #chicago #dharmapala #henry-olcott #history

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#always #college #educated #go #i

The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#college students #comments #complaint #courses #even