“I proceeded to prove everybody right as to how bad an economics student I was by failing as an assistant manager in every theatre I went to that hired me, both as an assistant manager and as an actor. I lost money and tickets, and I couldn't keep track of anything. So eventually they fired me from assistant-manager jobs, but kept me on as an actor.” JobsActorsLostFailingStudentsProveEconomicsTrackTheatreManagersTicketsAssistantsLost Money Author:William Shatner
“One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is.” PersonsArtBigsSchoolGivenBusinessFailingTeachingStudentsArt School Author:Stuart Pearson Wright
“Everybody knows - but no one wants to say - that the Democratic Party has become the party of special interest bigots and racial dividers. It runs the one-party state that controls public services in every major inner city, including the corrupt and failing school systems in which half the students - mainly African American and Hispanic - are denied a shot at the American dream.” KnowsWantStatesDreamRunningSchoolAmericaInterestPartyCitiesHalfFailingSpecialStudentsMajorsShotsDemocraticIncludingAfrican AmericanDeniedAmerican DreamDemocratic PartyPublic ServiceSpecial InterestsHispanicBigotsSchool SystemInner City Author:David Horowitz
“coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that the best scientific prose should sound like a non-human author addressing a mechanical reader. ... We injure ourselves when we fail to make our discipline as clear and vibrant as we can to students - prospective scientists - and to the public who pay the taxes.” ShouldWritingHumansArtSoundGrowthPayClearFailingStudentsReaderDisciplineTaxesResearchScientistGravesProseConventionsSetbackExplosivesArt Of Writing Book:Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age Source: Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age
“The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.” WayYearsMeanReasonDoneStoriesWantedNovelFailingWrittenStudentsBecomingShort StoryOperaNew WaysEssaysGearsScreenplays Author:Ray Bradbury
“The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.” TurnsTeacherFailingStudents Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“... education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at least a few guideposts pointing toward the implementation of these obligations.” DoeEducationResponsibilityFailingAwarenessStudentsObligationSocial ResponsibilityPointingImplementation Author:Mary Barnett Gilson
“Business schools are failing to teach the students about the risks of market failures. We need to include some material on market failures in the core of curriculum.” NeedsSchoolTeachFailingRiskStudentsMaterialsCoreCurriculumBusiness SchoolMarket Failure Author:Pankaj Ghemawat
“I'm a strong believer that you have to have an equal opportunity to fail and to try things that are hard. I always tell my students, "Don't just take things that are easy for you. If you're really good at math, don't take just math. Take classes that make you write. If you're a really great writer, but bad at math, take math and make yourself work your way through it."” IfsWayWritingTryingHardOpportunityStrongEasyClassFailingStudentsEqualMathBelieverReally GreatGreat WritersEqual OpportunityThings That Are Hard Author:Condoleezza Rice
“I don't consider myself an expert in the why. I don't consider myself an expert in leadership. I consider myself a student of leadership and I consider myself a student of the why. I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly looking for opportunities where it it will fail.” OpportunityFailingStudentsExpertsConstantly Learning Author:Simon Sinek
“Tthe first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form.... You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life.” IfsKnowsTryingFirstsWellsMayFactsSchoolTogetherRememberFormFailingStudentsTheoryRememberedEmsPoundsIsolatedBangs Author:Charlie Munger
“Apparently almost anyone can do a better job of educating children than our so-called 'educators' in the public schools. Children who are home-schooled by their parents also score higher on tests than children educated in the public schools. ... Successful education shows what is possible, whether in charter schools, private schools, military schools or home-schooling. The challenge is to provide more escape hatches from failing public schools, not only to help those students who escape, but also to force these institutions to get their act together before losing more students and jobs.” ChildrenHelpingShowsHomeSchoolTogetherJobsForceParentCan DoChallengesSuccessfulFailingMilitaryStudentsHigherLosingTestsInstitutionsEducatedScorePublic SchoolSchoolingEducatorSchooledBetter JobsCharterPrivate SchoolCharter SchoolsMilitary SchoolEducating Children Author:Thomas Sowell
“Everything we know has its origin in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. Then how is it possible that no more than one in one hundred students has ever been exposed to an extended and systematic study of the art and science of question-asking? How come Alan Bloom did not mention this, or E. D. Hirsh, Jr., or so many others who have written books on how to improve our schools? Did they simply fail to notice that the principal intellectual instrument available to human beings is not examined in school?” KnowsMenHumansArtBookMightSchoolHuman BeingsStudyFailingWrittenStudentsIntellectualHundredAskingInstrumentsAvailableExposedPrincipalSystematicArt And Science Author:Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.