“An enlightened person has real power and when they think a good thought, the tremendous power of attention causes their students to actually lift up into those states. It brings a power into their lives.” ThinkingPersonsRealStatesCausesAttentionTeacherStudentsLiftsEnlightenedGood ThoughtsReal Power Author:Frederick Lenz
“School children and students who love God should never say: "For my part I like mathematics"; "I like French"; "I like Greek." They should learn to like all these subjects, because all of them develop that faculty of attention which, directed toward God, is the very substance of prayer.” ShouldChildrenSchoolPrayerAttentionSubjectsStudentsMathematicsSubstanceGod LoveGreekFaculty Book:The Simone Weil Reader Source: The Simone Weil Reader
“I've moved a lot of my students into a high state of mind, but they don't do the things I have shown them how to do. So then, they drop down into a lower stage of attention.” MindStatesActionAttentionStageStudentsBuddhismMovedState Of MindRamaRight Action Author:Frederick Lenz
“In Zen, and in other forms of self discovery, we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information, blocks of attention, are transferred to the student.” SelfFormAttentionInformationStudentsMastersDiscoverySelf DiscoveryBlockZen MasterTransference Author:Frederick Lenz
“It takes tremendous self-restraint on the part of the student not to want to monopolize the teacher's attention, to live a very controlled life and a happy life, and of course, be dedicated to the cause.” WantSelfCoursesCausesAttentionTeacherStudentsBuddhismBuddhistControlledDedicatedHappy LifeRestraintEtiquetteSelf Restraint Author:Frederick Lenz
“But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you sit down to write. It's a way of being in the world, and the essence of it is paying attention.” WorldWayWritingAttentionFictionStudentsEssencePay AttentionSensibility Author:Julia Alvarez
“If you ask who are the customers of education, the customers of education are the society at large, the employers who hire people, things like that. But ultimately I think the customers are the parents. Not even the students but the parents. The problem that we have in this country is that the customers went away. The customers stopped paying attention to their schools, for the most part.” PeopleIfsThinkingCountryProblemSchoolAsksParentAttentionStudentsCustomersPay AttentionEmployers Author:Steve Jobs
“Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.” DoneSchoolRoomsAttentionTeachingMiddleStudentsCollegeApproachPay AttentionRenaissanceMiddle SchoolInstructorsLecturing Author:Daphne Koller
“At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.” ThinkingPersonsMatterPayAttentionIssuesPsychologyStudentsCollegeAccessJournalismPay AttentionSupportiveDeafAccountingDeafnessGallaudet Author:I. King Jordan
“The mantra is a very preliminary exercise for the student to begin to grasp a sense of focus. When they are used by persons who have reached very high levels of attention, they can open up doorways to other worlds.” WorldPersonsUsedLevelsAttentionFocusMeditationStudentsBuddhismExerciseOther WorldsDoorwaysMantrasHigh Level Author:Frederick Lenz
“Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.” WayNeedsDifferentHardCertainAttentionTeachingStudentsSkillsBoredReinforcementPositive Reinforcement Author:Bill Gates
“If nature be regarded as the teacher and we poor human beings as her pupils, the human race presents a very curious picture. We all sit together at a lecture and possess the necessary principles for understanding it, yet we always pay more attention to the chatter of our fellow students than to the lecturer's discourse. Or, if our neighbor copies something down, we sneak it from him, stealing what he himself may have heard imperfectly, and add it to our own errors of spelling and opinion.” IfsHumansMayTogetherUnderstandingHuman BeingsPoorPayRaceAttentionOpinionPrinciplesTeacherHeardStudentsFellowsAddErrorsNeighborStealingCuriousHuman RaceCopiesDiscourseLecturesPupilsSneakSpellingLecturerChatter Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“I was one of those whose school report would always say, 'Could pay more attention.' I spent my time trying to be the centre of attention or the class joker instead of knuckling down. Far from the perfect student.” TryingSchoolPerfectPayAttentionClassStudentsMy TimeReportsCentreCentre Of AttentionSchool Reports Author:Suzanne Shaw
“Create sacred spaces in the workplace as well. Classrooms, five years ago, professors would say, I don't want be a nanny to my students. They can do whatever they want. Now professors are saying, put away that laptop, because studies show that it not only takes away the attention of the person who's on the laptop from the class, but everyone around them. There's like a circle around that person that's distracted and not paying attention.” WantYearsWellsPersonsShowsCan DoSpaceAttentionClassStudyFiveStudentsYears AgoSacredCirclesPay AttentionFive YearsProfessorsClassroomWorkplaceDistractedLaptopsNanniesSacred Space Author:Judy Woodruff
“At Reliance Foundation schools, we lay special emphasis on value-based education, sports, and overall development of students. That is why the teacher-students ratio is kept at a healthy 1:20 so that all children get proper attention in class.” ChildrenSchoolValuesSportsAttentionClassTeacherSpecialStudentsDevelopmentHealthyFoundationLaysEmphasisRelianceRatiosTeacher Student Author:Nita Ambani