When I was a kid I was not a good student. I went to the University of Colarado, my grades were poor.… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
While I enjoy teaching people on the basic and intermediate levels to work them up to advanced levels, my real talent is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked.… — Matthew Gray Gubler Copy Share Image
Reagan thought that school prayer was important because it was crucial to begin each day reminding students that their inalienable rights came… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
New York rushed to get students into early childhood programs, but the research is clear that it has to be high quality.… — Pedro Noguera Copy Share Image
The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Most of my teachers wanted to send me to the principal's office. But my fourth-grade teacher once put her arms around me… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth.… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
I found great value in teaching students from the outset of their studies how to draw very realistically. Otherwise, you're starting deep… — David Small Copy Share Image
So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I get emails from students at programs all over the country who want to transfer to Iowa, and in most cases their… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that he will donate $45 billion of his wealth to philanthropy. Two years ago, my husband and I… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a… — Sidney Altman Copy Share Image
When you fall in love with a work of art, you’d die to meet the artist. I am a student of the… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
Manga uses Japanese traditional structures in how to teach the student and to transmit a very direct message. You learn from the… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
The Communists in Cuba didn't assist Castro in his revolution. They weren't on the side of the students. They didn't do anything… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
If you are that person, you are more likely to believe that God cured you, this invisible force, creator of the universe,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When I was 17, I taught music; I had 65 students a week, and I did that for a year. So that's… — Matt Schulze Copy Share Image
A disciple is a learner, a student, an apprentice – a practitioner… Disciples of Jesus are people who do not just profess… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it.… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
I absolutely think that women told that writing about themselves is somehow not worthy enough for a public audience all the time.… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
If we are going to have to worry all the time that we might offend some students' sensibilities, we are not going… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Although the only way that I'm well known at Illinois State is that I am the "grammar Nazi." And so any student… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
More time on paperwork means less time spent with students or preparing lessons for students. It is as simple as that. The… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
My mother Vivian Ayers always instilled within her children that our opinions, our thoughts and our ideas about what was possible was… — Debbie Allen Copy Share Image
No one on the street thought anything of the downtown girl dressed in black who had paused in the middle of midtown… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Leaders in China and India realize that science and technology lead to success and wealth. But many countries in the West graduate… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
School leadership has been identified as another critical element of student success, and subsequently enough resources and training should be provided to… — Shaheen Mistri Copy Share Image
I wanted to be in film. I wanted to be a film student, possibly be a director or cinematographer, not an actor.… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
It's really seeing student involvement … as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their… — Adam Fletcher Copy Share Image
I was a member of the Black Student Union, part of the central committee at San Francisco State. During the 1968 strike… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Even if you were to fall into extreme financial hardship and file for bankruptcy, you need to understand that your student loan… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
