Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

I grew up near the University of Michigan, so we'd sneak into college parties. That's where my acting started - lying about the professors I supposedly had and what I was studying.

I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.

When I became a professor of physics circa 1991, I doubled the number of female professors of physics in the U.K.

Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.

Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

After years of studying French in school, one of my professors said he'd really appreciate it if I didn't take any more French.

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

Our teachers made such a difference - all my teachers and professors were very supportive and nurturing.

I chose my classes based on which professors did not take attendance, and then I traded Padres tickets for notes from class. I wasn't the student of the month.

Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.

Like all professors, I also do a lot of extra jobs for which I was never trained, such as advising former students as they navigate the wider world.

I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St. John's in Minnesota to my professors at Georgetown.

Ideally, I'd love to write poems that intrigued humans across the board: literary folk and academics as well as... dog-walkers, doctors, plumbers, chefs, math professors, jugglers, etc.

I was close with some of my old professors.

It turns out one of my dad's best friends was Carl Sagan when I was little. They were both Harvard professors.

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.