The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It… — William Galston Copy Share Image
It transmitted because on the campuses, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was recruiting, was organizing. Students for a Democratic Society was founded at… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or… — Paulo Freire 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
