Sherrington said:"after some hundreds of years of experience we think that we have learned here in Oxford how to teach what is known.
Kmalu je postal predavatelj in nadzornik v Brownovem inštitutu za napredne fiziološke in patološke raziskave (Brown Institute for Advanced Physiological and Pathological Research) v Londonu, leta 1895 pa profesor fiziologije na Univerzi v Liverpoolu.