In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
If the attitude of the teacher toward the material is positive, enthusiastic, committed and excited, the students get that. If the teacher… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
There must be something here for me to get or to share or to do. So I have the duty that I… — Gary Kraftsow Copy Share Image
A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation.… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to… — Patrick J. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When I first moved to New York I had been trying to work on anything and everything I could. From extra work… — Pawel Szajda Copy Share Image
I look at my young students, and I no longer have the sense that, oh, I'm the authority and they have to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The median GPA and LSAT percentile for students of the country's elite law schools were 3.8 and 98 respectively. At the time… — Lino Graglia Copy Share Image
A student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison spent 90 days technology free. He went without a cell phone, Facebook, Twitter,… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Even with the most stupid video games, kids learn more about learning than they ever did before, because they want to learn… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
A smart politician needs to come in and create a plan for when our students graduate college, there are opportunities in fields… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
It's just disgusting that in this society, the majority of students in art school are women, but they amount to less than… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
Domestic violence does not only happen to adults. Forty percent of girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to cope with… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
They were...well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels! We are Beautiful… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
We wanted to hear from viewers about why they watch or participate in call-ins on C-SPAN, ... Viewers of all ages and… — Brian Lamb Copy Share Image
Education must prepare students to be independent, self-reliant human beings. But education, at its best, also must help students go beyond their… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, 'What's… — Taylor Schilling Copy Share Image
I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Whenever I felt down, whenever I started wondering what homeless shelter I would die in, [my mother] would buck me up by… — Paul Orfalea Copy Share Image
Some students are in a hurry to begin "real" pranayama. They go right to the later stages without first laying a quality… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
My obligation is to focus on the priorities of classroom instruction, parental involvement and student safety, targeting student performance and eliminating unnecessary… — John R. Leopold Copy Share Image
In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
I was a beast in college. I worked hard and I played hard. I was relentless learning about business. I actually snuck… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
“On my way to the parking lot, in quick succession, I saw students wearing t-shirts which read, “Save the whales. Collect the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lately I feel being political is also about the company I keep and the ideas I put forward. When I do a… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And… — D. Michael Quinn Copy Share Image
A new study shows that American students are becoming less proficient in science, and if the trend continues, we will become a… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
What I think is bugging this guy [Steven Lerner] is the belief that debt - forced debt upon middle-class people, students (i.e.,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I tell my graduate students [at Bard College], ‘There are two ways to change the world: through policy, or through sustainable business.’… — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
Women wear many hats in their lives. Daughter, sister, student, breadwinner. But no matter where we are or what we’re doing, one… — Ann Romney Copy Share Image
A university is a reading and discussion club. If students knew how to use the library, they wouldn't need the rest of… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With my students, I don't offer any simple tips like that, maybe because my own process is pretty messy, but when we… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a… — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image