I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
One time there was a student at Punjab University in Lahore who came down with cancer and his friend came to me… — Abdul Sattar Edhi Copy Share Image
Students of the Way must not study Buddhism for the sake of themselves. They must study Buddhism only for the sake of… — Dogen Copy Share Image
I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I watched the coral reefs that I studied as a student vanish in the blink of an eye, and for decades I… — Nancy Knowlton Copy Share Image
O truly enjoy... [a university], the individual-student or faculty-must harbor a well-calibrated sense of annoyance at the institution, entering into a muted… — Robin Winks Copy Share Image
I was a very good student until about sophomore year, and that's when I just became so disillusioned with the whole thing… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
In classrooms full of students who range from brilliant to sullen disaffection, it's games - and often games alone - that I've… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
Current education in science treats all students as if they were going to have scientific careers. They are required to solve problems… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I don't think in terms of that bizarre tautology 'value for money' in my literary and journalistic work - and nor will… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students,… — Viet D. Dinh Copy Share Image
I see myself only sporadically as a teacher and consistently as a writer. Teaching is how I pay the bills...and fortunately, for… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In the end we remember all the students we've gone to school with and invite them to our homes only to find… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the United States and many Western nations have a financial disaster coming, caused by our educational system’s failure to… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
A balanced diet and physical activity are vital to academic performance. A healthy diet has a direct link to increased cognitive function… — Matt Cartwright Copy Share Image
A student researching into my work has actually traced the newspapers and magazines where I found theses images and has found out… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Expert tutors often do not help very much. They hang back letting the student manage as much as possible. And when things… — Mark Lepper Copy Share Image
I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Teacher is not a great popular person. They teach what they know and make people better than them. Teacher must create a… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana… — David Steinberg Copy Share Image
Cutting HBCUs was unconscionable. Implementing new regulations on Parent Plus loans, which cost HBCUs 28,000 students, was hostile. At the same time,… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
I've always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had a 3.2.… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
Sri Chinmoy was a once in a lifetime spiritual leader who touched the lives of millions of people through his teachings, art,… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to… — Benjamin Bloom Copy Share Image
One of the most interesting results was part of a study my students and I conducted dealing with status in email correspondence.… — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
I want to be a jazzman until the day I die. To help keep that motion, momentum and movement going, for myself,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Since the 1970s, I have asked students if they would first try to save their drowning dog or a drowning stranger. And… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Bureaucratic solutions to problems of practice will always fail because effective teaching is not routine, students are not passive, and questions of… — Linda Darling-Hammond Copy Share Image
If we wanted a program to help the majority of the population, we'd offer loan guarantees to help poor people get access… — Megan McArdle Copy Share Image
We see and hear about Israelis and Palestinians only when they are defined by the global media as 'occupiers,' 'terrorists,' and 'victims.'… — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
We're going right down the toilet, and it's a made-in-China toilet. I teach MBAs. And I noticed, starting a few years after… — Peter Navarro Copy Share Image