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
Find a model of great education in history and you will find a great teacher who inspired students to make the hard… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Students need to be reminded that revision isn't merely making a few cosmetic changes. Revision is seeing and then reseeing our words… — Georgia Heard Copy Share Image
Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious… — Frederick Reines Copy Share Image
The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms… — Parker J. Palmer 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
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
If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience,… — Karen Karbo Copy Share Image
“They were worried about keeping military families strong. They were worried about the stress and strain of prolonged military service and how… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
We can only live the changes we wish to see: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
If you ask who are the customers of education, the customers of education are the society at large, the employers who hire… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“And if she liked and trusted the person who asked, she would add that yes, it was kind of a lot to… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I was interested in all kinds of things, whether it be Avatar, Mad Men, Troy, 300, Battlestar Gallactica, or the poems of… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“I thought, Dad. Could I go to Vietnam for you? Dad, I could do it. I could do it for you. I… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
I was a student of Sanford Meisner for three years at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and I studied with Lee Strasburg for five… — Lainie Kazan Copy Share Image
The intelligent student, after studying vedic texts, is solely intent on acquiring wisdom and realization. He should discard the texts altogether, as… — Chidananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
All amateur travellers have experienced horror journeys, long or short, sooner or later, one way or another. As a student of disaster,… — Martha Gellhorn 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
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
I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Sometimes I say to my students, "We get to come and listen to our favorite recordings and try to learn from them… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Sure, the job of high school teachers is not to tear down students' self-esteem. But it's certainly not to inflate students' sense… — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The coercive effect of this policy is particularly pronounced in the school setting given the age and impressionability of schoolchildren, and their… — Alfred Goodwin Copy Share Image
When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you.… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I do think that a school day that matches the work day makes a lot of difference for working families, but the… — Chris Gabrieli Copy Share Image
Nowadays, all students have access to and indeed most own computers and are comfortable with the software used to compose music. There… — Jon Appleton Copy Share Image
“Ah college years, those were the days. Pure freedom ... leaving home for the first time…the parties…” "What about the tutorials, the… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
A healthy body means a healthy mind. You get your heart rate up, and you get the blood flowing through your body… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Okay,' I said quietly. 'I'll do whatever you say. Just remember not to talk down to me. I'm not your student anymore.… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies… — Sue Kelly Copy Share Image
The talk of pale, burning-eyed students, anarchists and utopians all, over tea and cigarettes in a locked room long past midnight, is… — Christopher Isherwood 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
When I was in Hungary in December I was looking at student films and I could not tell which ones were shot… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
