Quotes by Professors - Page 69

School will bring you more success than marriage.
Nnedi Okorafor
For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.
Anthony M. Esolen
Education isn’t something your professors make for you. It’s something you make for yourself.
Lance Olsen
I wonder if more students would do better in elementary and high school if teachers taught more about individual exploration of subjects and less about sliding smoothly along observational ruts. Exploration is a liberal art, because it is an art that liberates, that frees, that opens away from narrowness. And it is fun.
John R. Stilgoe
Wherever you work, work hard and educate yourself continuously. You must never forget social welfare, ethics and honesty. However, there is no guarantee for your career progression. Therefore, don't expect that only the best people will be promoted.
Eraldo Banovac
It is equally important to learn from experience and from books.
Eraldo Banovac
Life is the greatest teacher because it educates even those who really hate to learn.
Eraldo Banovac
Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth.
Susan Eaton
But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions of the past 30 years. It needs a return to the conviction that economic growth and the affluence it brings is a means and not an end. The end is what it does to the lives, life-chances and hopes of people. Look at London. Of course it matters to all of us that London's economy flourishes. But the test of the enormous wealth generated in patches of the capital is not that it contributed 20%-30% to Britain's GDP but how it affects the lives of the millions who live and work there. What kind of lives are available to them? Can they afford to live there? If they can't, it is not compensation that London is also a paradise for the ultra-rich. Can they get decently paid jobs or jobs at all? If they can't, don't brag about all those Michelin-starred restaurants and their self-dramatising chefs. Or schooling for children? Inadequate schools are not offset by the fact that London universities could field a football team of Nobel prize winners.
Eric Hobsbawm
They weren't hours, these classes; they weren't even forty-five minutes--they were "periods," which sounded to me as if they were each at once a little era and then the end you had to see decisively put to it.
Gary Lutz
...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence or lack of desire to achieve is about as useful as a Betamax video cassette player, and it's time for those folks to be retired, be they teachers, administrators, or community leaders, so the rest of us can try to do some real work in the service of equal access for black students and all students. (15)
Adam J. Banks
I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.
Mark Van Doren
Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone should have one. Education is a nagging counselor. And, I am convinced, everyone does have one. It happens, however, that some nagging counselors have grown strong by a certain kind of nourishment. Others are weak and puny, even infantile, having never been nourished at all.
Richard Mitchell
Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a solace; it helps you now, and assures you of help in the future. Good education is a continual pain in the neck, and assures you always of more of the same.
Richard Mitchell
I’d compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play the roles of trainers, giving people access to the equipment (books, labs, our expertise) and after that, it is our job to be demanding.
Randy Pausch
I fear that we live in an ahistorical age in which we believe that we are so wise that we no longer need the lessons of the past, perhaps most disturbingly of all that technology has put us beyond the lessons of the past.
J. Rufus Fears
Now, Woolf calls her fictional bastion of male privilege Oxbridge, so I'll call mine Yarvard. Even though she cannot attend Yarvard because she is a woman, Judith cheerfully applies for admission at, let's call it, Smithcliff, a prestigious women's college. She is denied admission on the grounds thatthe dorms and classrooms can'taccommodate wheelchairs, that her speech pattern would interfere with her elocution lessons, and that her presence would upset the other students. There is also the suggestion that she is not good marriage material for the men at the elite college to which Smithcliff is a bride-supplying "sister school." The letter inquires as to why she hasn't been institutionalized.When she goes to the administration building to protest the decision, she can't get up the flight of marble steps on the Greek Revival building. This edifice was designed to evoke a connection to the Classical world, which practiced infanticide of disabled newborns.
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.
Richard Mitchell
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
Chinua Achebe
Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment.
Simon Baron-Cohen
The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them.
Sam Wineburg
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
Richard Shaull
Success is mainly the result of hard work.
Eraldo Banovac
In reality, there is no highway to success. Therefore, be prepared for difficulties.
Eraldo Banovac
He would never again need anything from his mother and father but their love.
Frederick Drimmer
Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.
Rodolfo Costa
Erase self-doubt by working to build your strengths instead of focusing on your weaknesses.
Rodolfo Costa
It may take little time to get where you want to be, but if you pause and think for a moment, you will notice that you are no longer where you were. Do not stop—keep going.
Rodolfo Costa
For some people, their fear to lose is greater than their desire to succeed, so they end up doing nothing and their dreams become impossible.
Rodolfo Costa
When you experience a negative circumstance or event, do not dwell on it. Be proactive — put your attention on what you need to do to bring the situation to a positive result.
Rodolfo Costa
Learn to adapt. Things change, circumstances change. Adjust yourself and your efforts to what it is presented to you so you can respond accordingly. Never see change as a threat, because it can be an opportunity to learn, to grow, evolve and become a better person.
Rodolfo Costa
Do not sit still; start moving now. In the beginning, you may not go in the direction you want, but as long as you are moving, you are creating alternatives and possibilities.
Rodolfo Costa
Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.
Junot Díaz
Knowledge has a great power. Therefore, unethical use of knowledge can be extremely harmful.
Eraldo Banovac
Creativity is an amazing human characteristic, which is more connected with curiosity than with knowledge.
Eraldo Banovac
There are three characteristics of wisdom: knowledge, experience and patience.
Eraldo Banovac
Knowledge is a beautiful thing that can fill us with happiness. Let’s just think about our students who answered brilliantly to questions on various exams.
Eraldo Banovac
Knowledge is an exceptional kind of property which cannot be lost or used up.
Eraldo Banovac
A man of knowledge can certainly offer some reasonable options to solve a problem – the question is why such a man is not always included in problem solving
Eraldo Banovac
It is certain that there is no limit to the vast ocean of knowledge.
Eraldo Banovac
Knowledge is the key driver of the progress of civilization.
Eraldo Banovac
Regardless of one’s age, acquiring new knowledge has always been useful.
Eraldo Banovac
Knowledge as such can never be worthless.
Eraldo Banovac
Two things influence one's wisdom: remarkable experience and – evenmuch more – accumulated knowledge.
Eraldo Banovac
Knowledge is the most beautiful manifestation of the human mind.
Eraldo Banovac
Adding your own piece of knowledge to the vast knowledge of the humanrace could be a sufficient reason for having existed.
Eraldo Banovac
There is a fascinating entanglement of science and knowledge, which is expressed as scientific knowledge.
Eraldo Banovac
The next presumption is always valid: one's knowledge corresponds toone's intellectual capacity.
Eraldo Banovac
Intellectual capacity is a precondition for becoming a man of knowledge.
Eraldo Banovac
I'm finding that the older I get, it's not that I learn new things, it's more like I find out how much of what I know is common knowledge.
Sam Lipsyte
Acquiring new knowledge has been crucial for survival over the millennia.
Eraldo Banovac
Knowledge is the key to the development of civilization.
Eraldo Banovac
Of course there is such a thing as too much doubt, for we ought to accept what is true. But there is also such a thing as proper doubt, for we ought not accept what is false. The possibility of doubt is inherent in the longing to understand, and nothing less than complete and perfect knowledge can satisfy the mind. We do not possess such knowledge here on earth; it is reserved for the beatific vision. Until then, doubt will be with us. This is...why it is so unreasonable to trust only what cannot be doubted, as Descartes proposed, because everything can be doubted. We should believe, not what we cannot doubt, but what we have the best reasons to believe.
J. Budziszewski
A person with a big ego usually knows very little.
Eraldo Banovac
Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Knowledge is a unique kind of property, indeed: you can share it with others, while still possessing it.
Eraldo Banovac
It is much more challenging to accept those who know a lot than those who know little.
Eraldo Banovac
A person with great knowledge is truly wealthy.
Eraldo Banovac
Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.
Chip Heath
Knowledge means rising above immediacy, beyond self, into the foreign and distant. The object of such knowledge is inherently vulnerable to scrutiny; the object is a ‘fact’ which, if it develops, changes, or otherwise transforms itself in the way that civilizations frequently do, nevertheless is fundamentally, even ontologically stable. To have such knowledge of such a thing is to dominate it, to have authority over it.
Edward Said