Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and education
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth, we shall find that, instead of possessing the pure religion of the Gospel, they may be divided either into infidels, who deny the truth; or politicians who make religion a stalking horse for their ambition; or professors, who walk in the trammels of orthodoxy, and are more attentive to traditions and ordinances of men than to the oracles of truth.
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If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.
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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which ...
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The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's mortality.
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The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Success, and the best of them will fight for his scholastic ideals with a courage and persistence that would shame a soldier. The professor is not afraid of words like truth; in fact he is not afraid of words at all.
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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
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Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.
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I've talked to students from Ivy League colleges who don't know their professors well enough to ask for a letter of recommendation. That doesn't happen at UMaine. Our faculty are genuine and sincere in their care for the students.
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Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead.
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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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To the degree that respect for professors ... has risen in our society, respect for writers has fallen. Today the professorial intellect has a...
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Coming from being a senior to being the youngest player on the team (is hard). I still have work to do and I'm still trying to correspond with professors and get everything taken care of.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if the...
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.
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I'm the same age as some of my professors, ... But coming in to teaching later in life gives me an entire whelm of experience to teach the students.
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Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
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Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.
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There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers.
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The three sexes are men, women, and professors.
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