College Professors Quotes - Page 2

• My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

  Maya Lin

  College, Artist, Parent

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• College professors have two bad traits. They are logical
  and they are easily flattered.

  Gertrude Stein

  College, Two, Academia

  Gertrude Stein (1955). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Painted lace, and other pieces, 1914-1937”

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• Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by 'sophisticated' methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, College, Rights

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.70, Pantheon

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