The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Let's say you're all worried about student-loan debt and you need to have steady income. That doesn't have to be your everything. — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company, and later, my degree course, all helped form my love of telling stories… — Justin Chadwick Copy Share Image
Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000 they hassled George W. Bush… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're… — Parker Stevenson Copy Share Image
Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with… — Zoe Tapper Copy Share Image
Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Phony gurus make themselves objects of adoration and worship. Real spiritual teachers aren't interested in adoration and worship. They like respect only… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I've heard that one-half of the students at elite schools want to go into private equity or hedge funds. They want to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute," said the student. "So is the hydrogen bomb," I replied. "But… — George Sweeting Copy Share Image
If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I would assert that highly effective leaders are made more than they're born. Every leader I know who's been highly effective has… — Douglas Conant Copy Share Image
I always tell my students to go back after a hundred pages and rewrite from the beginning. It's really harder if you've… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
It's actually a tribute to the quality of economics teaching that they have persuaded so many generations of students to believe in… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Teachers of science in schools and colleges must be masters of the tools for ensuring integrity in science and must instill them… — Lewis M. Branscomb Copy Share Image
In some suburban schools, the curriculum is chock-full of rigorous A.P. courses and the parking lot glitters with pricey SUVs, but one… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the… — Martin Lewis Perl Copy Share Image
I decided to go to Latin America because many of my students in Washington emigrated from this region and inspired me to… — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
