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Professors Quotes

Mixed grades for the people who teach us.

Not every quote here is flattering: one voice complains that professors get stuck lecturing instead of holding a real conversation, while another credits learning just as much from classmates as from the Academic staff themselves.

In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'

Quotes by Randall Kennedy

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

Quotes by James Broughton

I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.

Quotes by Jack Steinberger

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

Quotes by Hal Boyle

Academic Quotes

I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.

Quotes by Gary Hamel

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

Quotes by Emil Cioran

As a physics major at Yale in the 1970s, I developed crushes on nearly all my male professors.

Quotes by Eileen Pollack

Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.

Quotes by Derek Bok

I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St. John's in Minnesota to my professors at Georgetown.

Quotes by Denis McDonough

Ale Quotes

Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.

Quotes by David Horowitz

Research professors don't watch a whole lot of TV.

Quotes by Austan Goolsbee

Ideally, I'd love to write poems that intrigued humans across the board: literary folk and academics as well as... dog-walkers, doctors, plumbers, chefs, math professors, jugglers, etc.

Quotes by Amy Gerstler

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

Quotes by Alan Dershowitz

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is this Professors quotes page about?
It collects both praise and complaints about professors, presenting them as complicated figures rather than uniformly wise mentors or uniformly out-of-touch lecturers.
Why do people look up professor quotes specifically?
Students, academics, and former students often search this term to find language that matches their own mixed feelings about higher education mentors, both good and frustrating.
What's a critical take on professors included here?
One quote complains that professors are simply unable to hold an actual discussion, arguing that lecturing habits make real conversation difficult - a specific gripe about classroom dynamics, not academics in general.
Is there a more appreciative example too?
Yes - one speaker says classmates taught them just as much as the faculty did, and another recalls earning genuine respect from professors while serving on a law journal's editorial board.
Does the page connect professors to any broader theme?
One quote separates real poets from professors entirely, calling true poets 'oddballs' rather than academics - worth reading next to Academic quotes or Born quotes on natural versus earned talent.

Elsewhere, professors earn real respect - a law student recalling the standing they earned on a journal's editorial board proves the label isn't Born automatically, it's built.