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By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in serving the student body are less likely to respond favorably to criticism, and are more likely to feel the freedom to intimidate or harass those with opposing viewpoints.

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But tenure can also be used as a club to wield against the powerless.

College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

I'm a tenured professor. But I'd get rid of tenure.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

There is no greater way to ensure that universities remain a hotbed of leftist thought than to guarantee that professors knight their own successors. But that's basically how the Ph.D. system works, with sitting professors approving the work of would-be professors.

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.