Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.
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Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.
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Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
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A Certainty
Blond bicycles writhe in the swimming pools
of dark professors.
'What rubbish! ' you say, but I've seen it myself:
Blond bicycles writhe in the swimming pools
of dark professors.
poem by John Thorkild Ellison
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
quote by Camille Paglia
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
quote by Stephen Fry
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Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.
quote by David Horowitz
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There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers.
quote by Henry David Thoreau
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I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
quote by Jack Steinberger
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Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
quote by Emile M. Cioran
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
quote by Carl Sandburg
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I try not to deal with people's hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did.
quote by George Weinberg
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Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.
quote by Phyllis Schlafly
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Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
quote by Sinclair Lewis
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Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead.
quote by Sinclair Lewis
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I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
quote by Stephen Ambrose
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My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
quote by Thomas Carlyle
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
quote by Thomas Carlyle
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If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.
quote by Joyce Carol Oates
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