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“Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.”

Real Philosophy Found Careers Study Progress Students Lows Including Experiments Alternatives Shock Sociology Drudgery Slowness Sociological Low Points

Author:Paul Nurse

“The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline.”

Wells Character Able Jobs Careers Fields Students Particular Discipline Embrace Wide Variety Specialists

Author:Philippe Perrin

“During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.”

Important Government Felt Enjoy Careers Cases Study Military Students College Chosen Comedian Vietnam Completing Military Service

Book:The Truth (with jokes)

Source: The Truth (with jokes)

“I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them – what things they must photograph, things they have to try to shoot even before they master the intricacies of making dye transfer prints.”

Trying Might Careers Students Masters Photographer Photograph Print Transfers Intricacy

Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

“An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or sentimentality, sometimes imply that all of their students could one day produce worthwhile literature, rather than frankly acknowledging the troubling truth, anathema to a democratic society, that the great writer, like the contented worker, remains an erratic and anomalous event, immune to the methods of factory farming.”

“The rule should be HS students should be allowed to pursue their career”

Should Careers Students Pursue

Author:Arn Tellem

“Texas is a national leader in education reform and student achievement. Through our college- and career-ready standards and assessments, strong school accountability, and a focus on educator development, we have created an education system that prepares our students for success after graduation.”

“My biggest concern is always the students who are working toward a certain career - when they limit themselves to just that one option. They need to know that the world is huge - it's an ocean, and there are so many options. It's not the end of the world if they don't get to pursue an apparent childhood dream.”

Ifs Knows World Needs Ends Dream Certain Careers Childhood Students Huge Limits Ocean Concern Pursue End Of The World Childhood Dreams

Author:Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

“A student of mine is an actor, he used to go into these interviews and sometimes not get the part. He was "taken out". Someone would use power in a way that would cause him not to succeed”

Way Sometimes Use Success Used Actors Causes Careers Taken Students Mines Buddhism Succeed Interviews

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The factory model of education is the wrong model for the 21st century. Today, our schools must prepare all students for college and careers-and do far more to personalize instruction and employ the smart use of technology.”

Use Today School Careers Technology Century Students College Models Smart Instruction Factories 21st Century Use Of Technology

Author:Arne Duncan

“I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all the arts combined. Students are always asking me for advice, and I tell them that they have to be enthusiastic, because it's hard work. The only way to enjoy it is to be totally immersed. If you don't get involved on that level, it could be a very miserable job. I only have one regret about my career: I'm sorry that we are not making silent movies any more. That is the purest art form I can imagine.”

“A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles... I have still not had an excuse for using my talents for solving oblique triangles. If a professional mathematician never uses these dull techniques in a highly varied career, why must all high school students devote several weeks to the subject?”

“A third of our kids, after we spend more per student than any country in the world other than a couple rounding errors, 30 percent are college- and/or career-ready.”

World Country Kids Careers Students College Ready Couple Percent Thirds Errors

Author:Jeb Bush

“From the first days of my career as an entrepreneur, I have always used my own and my team's lack of experience to our advantage. In fact, at our first venture, Student magazine, we used our newcomer status to secure great interviews and generate publicity - people were excited about our new project and wanted to get involved. Our inexperience fed our restless enthusiasm for trying new things, which became part of our core mission.”