Original Article: http://dartreview.com/archives/2008/04/06/last_word.php
Sunday, April 6, 2008
There are now a days professors of philosophy but not philosophers.
—Henry David Thoreau
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us.
—Thomas Carlyle
Professors simply can’t discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
—Hal Boyle
Old professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
—Stephen Fry
A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep.
—W.H. Auden
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
—John Ciardi
Even if I should stand before the stake which has been prepared for me, I would never accept the recommendation of the theological faculty.
—Jan Hus
Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.
—Daniel H. Hill
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
—Theodore Roosevelt
Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
—Abbott Lawrence Lowell
College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
—Robert Frost
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
—B.F. Skinner
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
—Russell Green
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
—Ambrose Bierce
A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.
—Leonard L. Levinson
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge.
—Mark Twain
College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.
—George Gobel
I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
—William F. Buckley, Jr.
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
—J. Robert Oppenheimer
A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
—Lao Tzu
A leader is not an administrator.
—Robert Townsend
Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.
—Javier Pascual Salcedo
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
—Franz Kafka
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies.
—Frank Lloyd Wright