I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student. — John Irving Copy Share Image
More than half of my former students teach - elementary and high school, community college and university. I taught them to be… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
I have students who are PhDs in music who come back and scored the music and teach the kids the instruments that… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
A lot of my students have been quite notable. Notable in both the personal sense - people who have changed my life… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
“As observers of totalitarianism such as Victor Klemperer noticed, truth dies in four modes, all of which we have just witnessed. The… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Like all professors, I also do a lot of extra jobs for which I was never trained, such as advising former students… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
It gives me a very keen satisfaction that, after listening to my blather all those years, former students are now seeing that… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Alan [Ferber] is a great trombonist and composer. I'm thankful that I got some associations like that through peers and former students.… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
“We have been waiting for an hour when we see a squad of German soldiers line up on the roadbed alongside the… — Lucie Aubrac Copy Share Image
“Many students come to me full of wonderful intentions hoping to change the world; they plan to spend their time helping the… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
When the kids see the poverty in their neighborhood, but they see these successful kids who come from the countries they come… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
“I read of a Buddhist teacher who developed Alzheimer's. He had retired from teaching because his memory was unreliable, but he made… — Mary Bray Pipher Copy Share Image
“Home. The place where your barber doesn’t have to ask what to do with your hair. Where the music you love came… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
Every day I get letters from people thanking me for helping them to become successful, whether because of their personal growth or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“When Annunziata said she loved me or any of her thousands of other friends and beloveds, she was really saying, at least… — Cathleen Falsani Copy Share Image
“One of my former students, recently tasked with the writing of bio-ethical guidelines for a teaching hospital in southern California, noted that… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image