Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I love Halloween. It reminds me of my happy childhood days as a student at Wampus Elementary School in Armonk, N.Y., when… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I talk about it a lot to my students. Musicality never came up in any of own writing education, and I can… — Paul Lisicky Copy Share Image
Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I liked working in advertising, but don't believe my taste in art, such as it is, was entirely formed by TV commercials.… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in students. It teaches them how to… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
“One of the ironies of college is that the impossibility of reading your way out of the modern predicament is something you… — Joshua Rothman Copy Share Image
Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
I think the reason we might hesitate to pay cash to students for doing well on tests or getting good grades or… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
I was an exchange student for a summer, and most of that summer was in Ukraine. I used to say 'the Ukraine'… — Louie Gohmert Copy Share Image
When you're teaching a hard concept and the students all have puzzled looks on their faces and then suddenly you can see… — Anant Agarwal Copy Share Image
The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
Because of the way our society is structures, using sentences such as "I don't it" can put people at a disadvantage. And… — Kate Burridge Copy Share Image
The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
It takes tremendous self-restraint on the part of the student not to want to monopolize the teacher's attention, to live a very… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
A valuable lesson I've learned from making music is to never let anyone intimidate me. Every student, celebrity, CEO and math teacher… — Anna Nalick Copy Share Image
Not only do African students deserve excellent universities, they deserve good elementary and secondary schools, too - and then, to have access… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it's all about making money. They know people want to see what they've seen… — Tobe Hooper Copy Share Image
Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As soon as I graduated from high school I was off to the biggest college my parents could afford, Colorado University at… — Susan Schneider Copy Share Image
We sometimes talk as if "original research" were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. But all thinking… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
School children and students who love God should never say: "For my part I like mathematics"; "I like French"; "I like Greek."… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the… — Asif Ali Zardari Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion… — Mark Salzman Copy Share Image
The Republican Party cannot be anti-trade, anti-immigrant, not out there practicing the politics of people, you know, the issues surrounding drug addiction… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, 'If people would… — Monte Irvin Copy Share Image
“The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I was always on the outside. It was the worst when I still wanted to be a professor, having to deal with… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported… — Daniel H. Hill Copy Share Image
