The moment when I can see a student's block, name the challenge and watch them become fuller and more dynamic in front… — Jeff Raz 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
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 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
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
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
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
If you're always in the company of people who agree with you, you're going to think of people who don't agree with… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I… — John Irving Copy Share Image
My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
Pedagogy of the Oppressed resonated with progressive educators, already committed to a 'child-centered' rather than a 'teacher-directed' approach to classroom instruction. Freire's… — Sol Stern Copy Share Image
But it's clear to me that us slow-poke writers are a dying breed. It's amazing how thoroughly my young writing students have… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I was playing in a band and was approached to score an independent film. I had never done it, but had written… — Douglas Pipes Copy Share Image
Scientists are educated from a very early time and a very early age to believe that the greater scientist is the scientist… — Richard Lewontin 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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