Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I always say to my students, 'If you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.' — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Legacies, athletes, and favored racial minorities all receive preferential treatment from admissions committees to the exclusion of academically better-qualified students. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
I don't think there are any students who should not be exposed to a basic financial literacy course. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
I guess it's the age group of students; You are questioning life. Then there are those who actually see their problems reflected… — Trisha Goddard Copy Share Image
Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My classroom is set up to accommodate the different types of assignments students do. Sitting at a single desk the entire class… — Christine Taylor Copy Share Image
Never do anything for a student that he he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you'll make him… — Howard G. Hendricks Copy Share Image
When you choose your profession, you also choose your own downfall or success. If one chooses to become an artist it is… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
I almost stopped teaching entirely. The worst thing for me is contact with students. I like universities without students. And I especially… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Even in challenging economic times, making sure that study abroad is part of our college students' education is a vital investment. If… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I am a morning person and start work, whether composing, rehearsing, preparing syllabi/tests, or proofing an article or manuscript, early in the… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
Dalai Lama has made new opportunities for women that they never had in Tibet, introduced science into the monks' curriculum and had… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
[E]volutionists sometimes take as haughty an attitude toward the next level up the conventional ladder of disciplines: the human sciences. They decry… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. you will not find me in… — Kabir Copy Share Image
The spirit of Dr. [Martin Luther] King and the thousands of people he worked with set the races on a different course… — Peter Hans Kolvenbach Copy Share Image
As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Dressed as he was in a practically fluorescent pink tee-shirt and denim shorts cut at the knee, Adam drew his fair share… — Erin Lawless Copy Share Image
The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'll be honest; I'm a student of fashion. I say that because I just wear what I feel. I'm not led by… — Keri Hilson Copy Share Image
I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting… — Dabney Coleman Copy Share Image
While I was in school, a local magazine picked the 10 best students, and they picked me and profiled me in the magazine. — Punit Renjen Copy Share Image
Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
As Governor, expanding access to STEM programs for students has been a top priority of mine. — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image
As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the… — David Naughton Copy Share Image
We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future… — Jaime Escalante Copy Share Image
The advanced student of meditation takes an active part in supporting the work of their teacher. They happily work more hours or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as… — Aaron Klein Copy Share Image
The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100… — Paul Achleitner Copy Share Image