I always tell my students the same thing. And that's to live life, and to read very voraciously without any definite program.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The Bible is so deep! As the 6th-century church father Gregory put it: "Scripture is like a river...shallow enough...for the lamb to… — Martin Manser Copy Share Image
Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
“Beethoven said that it's better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be… — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
If you're, like, a PhD student in English, and you look at each instance that Richard Yates is mentioned in the book...it… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
I think I give far more space and play to avant-garde writing than any other contemporary textbook author. I want students to… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I found so much fun in the light shows and the multimedia shows of the hippies. That was when I was a… — Charlemagne Palestine Copy Share Image
But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
When you care about perfection, you care about an expectation. But there is also caring for where I am right now, for… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
I hadn't had any course work in ceramics. I had no courses in art education but I wasn't going to let this… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
Teachers, who are really good create that environment where you can be very satisfied by the process of learning. If you do… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
I was petrified because all my friends would be going to Washington, DC, to protest. I was sixteen, and I was like,… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
So much of our politics is stuck in patterns of response that aren't working. When student performance is declining in schools, we… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Emotions are classes in the Earth school. Some classes are about fear, and some are about love. The Universe is your tutor,… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
The SAT plays an important role in helping admissions officers around the country sort out students, well-deserving students from 20,000 high schools… — Jonathan Grayer Copy Share Image
Teachers and students (leadership and people), co-intent on reality, are both Subjects, not only in the task of unveiling that reality, and… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I think bullies are very lonely people. I always tell teenagers not to bully others because it's unacceptable. We need to teach… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Now, after the communist take-over in 1948, the amount of feature films produced dwindled to three a year, while the school was,… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
When I taught, a lot of my students weren't big readers, so they would write something and I realized that they thought… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
No Child Left Behind taught us that parents, teachers and state and local leaders are more suited to address students' needs than… — John Kline Copy Share Image
There are four types of students: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sieve. The sponge, which soaks up everything; the… — Ethel Percy Andrus Copy Share Image
Why should we tie everyone's future to athletic success? I think organic farm has saved our school. It saved it because it… — Michael Sorrell Copy Share Image
Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference… — Timothy Simons Copy Share Image
We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
If the right wing has their way and state's rights control voting rights, they would remove protections that make it difficult for… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools'… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The guy you see on the screen isn’t really me. I’m Duke Morrison, and I never was and never will be a… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Perseverance is what I tell my students. It's important that you keep your dream alive, because you're going to encounter a lot… — Kasi Lemmons Copy Share Image
“When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
I tell my students all the time is, for better or worse, no publisher is going to come wrench your story out… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Sometimes during the two-year curriculum, every MBA student ought to hear it clearly stated that numbers, techniques, and analysis are all side… — Peter Robinson Copy Share Image
Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
