“I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.” KnowsDoeFightingStudySecurityProfessorsNational Security Author:Barry McCaffrey
“I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.” PlaySchoolStudyHappenedCollegeBasketballHigh SchoolUniversityProfessorsAthleticSan FranciscoFunny ThingsScholarshipAthletic Scholarships Author:Michael Franti
“The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his studies, his reading, his professors, his associates, all were combined to keep from him any results of observation or reflection save those prescribed: probably, of all means for stifling healthy and helpful thought, a theological seminary, as then conducted whether Catholic or Protestant, Jewish or Mohammedan, was the most perfect.” MenMeanYoungReadingPerfectResultsCareersStudyWallHealthyReflectionCatholicCurrentsObservationYoung ManHelpfulProfessorsAssociatesDestinedNew ThoughtTheologicalProtestantsStiflingSeminary Author:Andrew Dickson White
“The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.” IdeasLiteratureBitsNovelStudyFiveStudentsTerribleConsequenceProfessors Author:Donna Tartt
“I'm a believer that there are three fundamental ways that you can think about education. They're being a professor upfront, lecturing, telling what's inside your head, some case studies in which you are in discussion and also an action based learning.” ThinkingWayActionThreeCasesStudyFundamentalsBelieverDiscussionProfessorsLecturingCase Studies Author:Robert J. Dolan
“Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical literature. But theology, the study of gods, the study of what gods do, presupposes that gods exist. The only kind of theology that I take account of are those theological arguments that actually argue for the existence of God.” KindLiteratureInterestingExistenceStudySubjectsArgumentAccountsArguingTheologyProfessorsBiblicalInteresting ThingsTheologicalGod ExistsExistence Of God Author:Richard Dawkins
“Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.” PhilosophyCoursesOpportunityStudyTaughtEconomicsArchitectureProfessorsKnowledgeableRussian History Author:Stanley B. Prusiner
“(Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderlinessand he would not be a German if he had not placed all his hopes of developing this inner orderliness into education. Education is the secret of life for him as for every German: studying, learning a lot from books, sitting in lectures, keeping notebooks, listening intently to professors.” IfsFirstsHas BeensBookSecretEducationLearningStudyListeningSittingDevelopingProfessorsLecturesNotebookSecret LifeOrderliness Author:Stefan Zweig
“I believe in positive despotism. That means an exchange between people. I'm thinking about the fact that someone serves me breakfast in my bed. I can not see anything wrong in that. Because everything is a question of exchanges between people. Everyone has some specific possibilities and can to a certain extent do whatever they want. If one wants to become rich one can study economy and if one wants to be poor one can choose to become a professor in butterfly wings for example. So we can choose.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantBelieveMeanI CanFactsCertainI BelievePoorEconomyStudyRichExamplePossibilityBedWingsI Believe InBreakfastProfessorsButterflyCan NotDespotismBecome RichButterfly Wings Author:Odd Nerdrum
“We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.” FirstsLeftSpeakSidesStudyCenturyTheorySpeechAbuseTwentiesStrategyCommittedProfessorsExcessFree SpeechSpeaks OutSuppressionReluctance Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
“If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.” IfsHumansHappensChanceBrainStudyStudentsRevolutionDrivenTechniqueDataProfessorsEngineersReverseRumorMedievalStudent SuccessHuman BrainTailorsData Science Author:Sebastian Thrun
“What is Camille Paglia doing, writing that an actress as gifted as Anne Heche has the mental depth of a pancake? How many pancake brains could do what Heche did with David Mamet's dialogue in Wag the Dog? No doubt Heche has been stuck with a few bad gigs, but Paglia, of all people, must be well aware that being an actress is not the same safe ride as being the tenured university professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.” PeopleWritingWellsHas BeensArtHumanityBrainStudyDoubtMediaDogSafeDepthUniversityActressesStuckDialogueNo DoubtProfessorsGiftedGigsPhiladelphiaPancakesWagsWag The DogUniversity ProfessorsCamilleMedia Studies Author:Clive James
“Create sacred spaces in the workplace as well. Classrooms, five years ago, professors would say, I don't want be a nanny to my students. They can do whatever they want. Now professors are saying, put away that laptop, because studies show that it not only takes away the attention of the person who's on the laptop from the class, but everyone around them. There's like a circle around that person that's distracted and not paying attention.” WantYearsWellsPersonsShowsCan DoSpaceAttentionClassStudyFiveStudentsYears AgoSacredCirclesPay AttentionFive YearsProfessorsClassroomWorkplaceDistractedLaptopsNanniesSacred Space Author:Judy Woodruff