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You and me, professor."
"You and me, beauty.
But I'm the professor! This is my class! Show some respect!" "Okay,
Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.
It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.
College professors have two bad traits. They are logical
and they are easily flattered.
He looked around circumspectly, then introduced himself: Professor Camestres. At the question "Professor of what?" he made a vague gesture, as if urging us to exercise greater discretion.
Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.
Shortly after my Ph.D., Alfred Kastler urged me to accept a teaching position at the University of Paris. I followed his advice and started to teach at the undergraduate level.
Wherever you go, there's your teacher.
My dad was an English professor.
Hospitals and jails and whores: these are the universities of life. I've got several degrees. Call me Mr.
If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.
Education isn't something your professors make for you. It's something you make for yourself.
My English teacher, he's like, he's like Mr. Bu-fu.
on that more than anything else. But crazy pants Professor aside,
I have actually five honorary degrees.
Everybody's a teacher if you listen.
I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.
Thus having been undeservedly accepted at the Conservatory as a professor, I soon became one of its best and possibly its very best pupil, judging by the quantity and value of the information it gave me!
I was at a speaking engagement for MIT ... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution [MIT]! And that's why I can make a radio out of a coconut, and not fix a hole in a boat!'
And you are?'
'Erm . . Professor N'gomo.' said Edith waving her badge in what she supposed was a casual way.
You're Professor Mills? The new one who teaches history?
As opposed to the old Professor Mills who preached overthrow of the government?
I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying.
A lecturer often makes you feel dumb at one end and numb at the other.
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
You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.
I was a mere 29-year-old instructor at Kyoto, enjoying daily research work with some young students. Nothing had prepared me to be a professor at a major national university. Being too young and inexperienced to be a Full Professor, I was first appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry.
The SAGE OF RESEARCH
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.
Of course I'm all right, professor. I had to be. A is A.- John Galt
And I suppose you're going to sit beside me every single class?"
"I don't know. You seem like an angry student. I'm not sure I want the prof associating me with you.
A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
I've learned so much from my professors and have been fortunate to have had so many good ones, including Frederick and Steven Barthelme, Edward Carey, Jim Magnuson, and Elizabeth McCracken.
Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples.
Oh, so slimy bastard shithead had been a lecturer?
I've always loved teaching and reading and talking to people, and my grandfather was a professor.
Incredible," said Constable Dawes. "Impossible," said Sergeant Michaels. "Elementary," said my professor with a grin.
vice-chancellor's
What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?
We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same.
Tut, tut," said Professor Umbridge. "That won't do, now, will it? I should like you, please, to reply 'Good afternoon, Professor Umbridge.' One more time, please. Good afternoon, class!
Everybody at a university was to her a professor, unless they were students of course, and therefore even worse.
I am creating an atmosphere! Oh, Unc, we've finally got bodies in this joint! Paying bodies. We could have a good racket going here."
"I'm not interested in a 'racket.' I'm an academic."
"That's okay, Unc. I won't hold it against you.
I'm not an expert," said Cletus. "I'm a scholar. There's a difference. An expert's a man who knows a great deal about his subject. A scholar's someone who knows all there is that's available to be known about it.
Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.
I have more than 100 honorary Ph.D.s.
I'm ultimately not so much of a professor as a progresser. And I'm ready to move away from what I consider to be this weird mid-century dream that I feel pulls us as a country, and us as a culture, backward.
Hi my name's Quarry. I'm in town to blow your favorite professor's brains out. Can you tell me whether you're planning to stop by his place this afternoon, so I can pick a time when I wouldn't have to spray your fucking brains against the wall, too? Thanks!
A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.
Think of your favorite teacher you ever had in school: the one who made it the most fun to go to class. They surprise you. They keep you guessing. They keep you coming back, wanting to know what's going to happen next.
I am the mild-mannered organic chemistry teacher at the University of Oklahoma.
Perhaps, I suggested, the fate of the universe could briefly take second place to the thorny issue of graduating with honours?
He blew loudly between his lips, a liquid sound of contempt. "That," he exclaimed, "is precisely what's wrong with academics.
In the field of letters, as apart from medicine and science, professors do not lead but follow. Their wisdom is always that of a post-mortem. They
Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
I was promoted associate professor in early 1970 and full professor in October of the same year. I spent the two spring semesters of 1972 and 1974 as visiting professor at Harvard University, giving lectures and directing a research project.
What a mysterious faculty is that queen of the faculties!
Brilliant lecturers shouldn't be wasted in lecture rooms: they should appear onTV. We need black market universities, in which people just help each other, and which don't leave out the poor.
There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
Dr. Prem, a world renowned speaker delivers flawless speeches on various topics including leadership, public speaking, business management and global healthcare. Dr. Prem is well informed and his speeches are well researched.
I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade later she repeated her question and I repeated my answer. "No promotion?" was her comment.
My finest student, and also my greatest disappointment.
Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.
Teacher: a master who, through personal example, inspires students to rebel against learning.
a history teacher. I work,
I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.
Even the Teachers Have Teachers
I was a teacher once.
In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.
What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research.
If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you.
Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.
Typically [professors] live in their heads. ... They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It's a way of getting their head to meetings.
Professors have a lot of power."
I almost smiled. "Even medieval history professors?"
"Especially medieval history professors," he assured me.
"Knights on horseback and all that?"
A responding smile tugged at his mouth. "And damsels in distress.
You had me in your phone as Professor Hunter?
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
In 1952, I was appointed Professor at the University of Bonn and Director of the Physics Institute, with very good students waiting for a thesis advisor.
The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out of my own sense of irresponsibility.
Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ!
An important event in my scientific life has been my appointment as a Professor at the College de France in 1973.
It occurred to me that professors must get so they unconsciously act the way people think professors ought to act;
The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT.
Some are professors and others are possessors.
Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.
Teaching is in my bones. I love to teach.
We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.
The problem, dear professor, is that you wanted someone who could be made intelligent but still be kept in a cage and displayed when necessary to reap the honors you seek. The hitch is that I'm a person.
I put myself up for full professor, an act of such unprecedented and unmitigated arrogance that the committee approved it, thus effectively rooting me to the scene of the crime, too weighed down by tenure, rank, and salary to be marketable ever again.
I teach the way that I wish I was taught. The lectures are coming from me, an actual human being who is fascinated by the world around him.
- Salman Khan
Nothing is more satisfying in travel than to land in a place and assume an occupation, even a temporary one, as a teacher.
Political scientists and professors are the new clergy; the clergy of oppression.
Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just like ELEVEN PLUS TWO equals
TWELVE PLUS ONE,
And even a FUNERAL can be REAL FUN,
You will find my DICTIONARY
is quite INDICATORY.
If you want to read my story, just look ...
THEN UNREAD.
In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first
I actually went to university.
The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students.
A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.
Coach Genghis rather
Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.
I can remember the day when all that a professor was supposed to do was to mark "C minus" on students' examination papers, then gohome to tea. Nowadays they seem to feel that they must know just how much we (outside the university) eat, what we do with our spare time, and how we like our eggs.