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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.»
Author: Catherine Drinker Bowen
(Writer)
| Keywords:
abjure, abjured, best of them, bitch, goddess, long ago, professor, professors, scholastic, The Professor
«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.»
Author: David Horowitz
| Keywords:
doctors, minister, patients, professors, regard to, religious belief, religious beliefs
«The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.»
Author: Douglas Hofstadter
| Keywords:
absentminded, coherence, droll, finish off, finish up, German, lecture, nonplussed, phenomenon, professors, proverbial, ramble, ramble on, rambling, rattle off, rattling, recursion, stack, stacked, stacks, string, tales, verb, verbs
«The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.»
Author: Tristan Tzara
(Essayist, Founder, Poet)
| Keywords:
dossier, guidance, imbecility, professors
«What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Books,
Education
| Keywords:
after all, books, collection, collections, depends, finished, Great Books, professors, The Professor, university
«What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
after all, finished, professors, The Professor
«The professors must not prevent us from realizing that history is fun, and that the most bizarre things really happen»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
bizarre, professors, realizing
«There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
days, philosophers, philosophy, professors, The Professor
«Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
college, educated, professors, The Professor, unable
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