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
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
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
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
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
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 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
I did my last year of high school as an exchange student. I lived south of the Atlanta, in a quite strange… — Anna Ternheim Copy Share Image
I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love… — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
My education in the public schools of New York City between 1932 and 1944 was an excellent preparation for a life in… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
One of the wonderful things that I've always loved as an art student, what I always loved about comics, was that they… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
When the kids see the poverty in their neighborhood, but they see these successful kids who come from the countries they come… — Rafe Esquith 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
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
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
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
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
You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Emily Dickinson did not like was one of the stated purposes of the college - to convert young women to the Christian… — Christopher Benfey Copy Share Image
There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to… — Graham Coxon Copy Share Image
I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
The idea that the majority of students attend a university for an education independent of the degree and grades is a hypocrisy… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
When I was a junior in college I moved to New York and went to this performance school the Experimental Theatre Wing.… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
I keep remembering from my early student days how I would walk at night through the streets, my hands bunched into fists… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Devotion has its own strange ways. It is not something rational, logical, something that can be explained to you. But it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I speak to students, I tell them why we have a First Amendment. I tell them about the Committees of Correspondence.… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The Texas-OU game is a big revenue bear. And because it's played at a neutral site, you don't have as many student… — Darrell Royal Copy Share Image
I say to my students that I can't teach them how to write a good song, but I can teach you how… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
I have read that, on the average, the Japanese are getting taller, but at the moment they seem to be about the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Your peers are people in the business who are going to push you forward. So I think it's one of the reasons… — Mike Tirico Copy Share Image
If colleges and universities are really concerned about women's rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in… — Alison Hawthorne Deming 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
