Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
What I learned about the mob wasn't through lectures at the academy. — Joseph D. Pistone Copy Share Image
The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then won’t let me turn the traction control off! — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon. — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I go to lectures and girls are finding out about Bikini Kill or Le Tigre for the first time and are like,'… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I take a backseat to no one in my affection, respect and devotion to veterans. And I will not accept from Senator… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in… — William Osler Copy Share Image
in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
At the beginning of each lecture I say, 'Here's a set of events unexplainable by common sense, and I promise you'll be… — Robert Cialdini Copy Share Image
The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
A smooth lecture... may be pleasant; a good teacher challenges, asks, irritates and maintains high standards - all that is generally not… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It was a very big gamble. I lost my job in France, I received a job in which was extremely uncertain, how… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I went to the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, which was great but very different from a typical university. They… — Kimberley Nixon Copy Share Image
So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .” “Because experience is… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
“It was well said—by Jean Tarrou in The Plague, I think—that attendance at lectures in an unknown language will help to hone… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For the love of ammonites, man! That's just stupid. Why on earth would the Society need to protect unmarried women from bone-dry… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“What do you have to say for yourself, boy?" Cgerise "Sorry, Ma, I'm a sexy demon magnet?" Nick "Cherise!" Bubba "Don't you… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Whenever I have given lectures to a large audience before, I have always looked for an ending that gives a 'wow' feeling. — May-Britt Moser Copy Share Image
Look, if I'd wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I'd have gone to bed with Martin Luther. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture. — Shelley Berman Copy Share Image