“I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.” FirstsTwoNamesEducationThousandMembersUniversityFacultyTelephonesBostonHarvardHarvard UniversityFaculty Members Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.
“Gun-free zones don't deter criminals-they help them by providing a guarantee that they will not face any armed resistance. But they do deter the law-abiding. A faculty member with a concealed-handgun permit who breaks the campus gun ban would be fired and likely find it impossible to get admitted to another school. Bringing a firearm into a gun-free zone can have serious adverse consequences for law-abiding people. But for someone like the Virginia Tech killer, the threat of expulsion is no deterrent at all.” PeopleHelpingWould BeSchoolFacesLawBreakImpossibleSeriousMembersGunConsequenceThreatCriminalsResistanceGuaranteesZoneFacultyPermitKillersProvidingAbidingConcealedVirginiaBansCampusFirearmsGuarantees ThatAdverseHandgunsDeterrentExpulsionGun BanFaculty MembersVirginia Tech Book:Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns Source: Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns
“While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.” UseTogetherTechnologyTaughtMembersComputerFacultyJuniorsInstituteFaculty Members Author:Kenneth G. Wilson
“No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set of prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity.” ArtistAnswersSeriousMembersScientistUniversityPursueAlternativesComplexityFacultyScholarEngineersPhysiciansVocationAmbiguityPsychologistRight AnswersFaculty Members Author:Leon Botstein
“I don't really see what can be said about the role of faculty members, or universities, beyond the truisms voiced earlier, and their elaboration in various domains, ranging from focused intellectual pursuits to the concerns of the larger society and future generations.” SaidRolesGenerationsMembersIntellectualConcernUniversityVariousFocusedPursuitFacultyDomainFuture GenerationTruismFaculty Members Author:Noam Chomsky
“There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.” Has BeensSaidSchoolLinesStudentsMembersRelationCaringMedicalIntimateFacultyAssemblyMedical SchoolAssembly LineFaculty Members Author:Ashley Montagu