University Professor

Famous quotes containing the words university and/or professor:

“The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“Indeed, there is hardly the professor in our colleges, who, if he has mastered the difficulties of the language, has proportionally mastered the difficulties of the language, has proportionally mastered the difficulties of the wit and poetry of a Greek poet, and has any sympathy to impart to the alert and heroic reader.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)