“The fact that I was African American was never addressed, and that allowed me to just be a student, like anyone else. I was not aware of how rare it was to be an African American, how rare it was to have four years of training under my belt, and how, even though I could imitate people and fake it, unprepared I was to become a professional.” PeopleYearsFactsFourStudentsTrainingAfrican AmericanFakeFour YearsBeltsUnprepared Author:Misty Copeland
“A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students. He does not yet know that one day he will have to face himself as a solitary creature enclosed in a space of four walls... and that he will have to be a self-propelled being, with no one at is side.” IfsKnowsDoeArtSelfSchoolFacesYoungSidesSpaceFourStudentsWallOne DaySolitudeCreaturesPainterSolitaryArt SchoolFour WallsArt Students Author:Pierre Alechinsky
“In the sixties, in the middle sixties, suddenly comics became this hip thing, and college students and hippies were reading them. So I was one of them, and I started reading, basically it was the Marvel Renaissance at that point. It was all their new characters, Spiderman and the X-Men and the Fantastic Four.” MenCharacterReadingFourMiddleStudentsCollegeFantasticHipsSixtyHippieRenaissanceX MenCollege StudentsFantastic Four Author:Trina Robbins
“I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.” ArtAgeSchoolYoungStudyFourStudentsInvolvedPianoBoardsRoyalYoung Age Author:Monica Raymund
“There are four types of students: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sieve. The sponge, which soaks up everything; the funnel, which takes in at one end and lets out at the other; the strainer, which permits the wine to pass out and retains the lees; and the sieve, which separates the bran from the fine flour.” EndsLearningFourStudentsFineTypeWinePermitSpongesFlour Book:The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus Source: The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus
“The idea of political content is irrelevant. Content is irrelevant. I always tell my students, "Never forget you're writing words! You know, word one, word two, word three, word four. The words have to be organized. Nothing else does."” KnowsWritingDoeTwoIdeasPoliticalThreeForgetFourStudentsOrganizedNever ForgetIrrelevantOne WordForget YouThree WordsWriting Words Author:Dave Hickey
“Four things will shame the students of knowledge: Criticizing people, praising themselves, not teaching the knowledge,and not practicing what they know.” PeopleKnowsFourTeachingStudentsPraiseShameCriticize Author:Luqman
“I've seen with my own students, community colleges offer an affordable route to four-year college degrees and good paying jobs.” YearsJobsCommunityMy OwnFourStudentsCollegeOffersDegreesFour YearsRoutesAffordableCollege DegreeCommunity College Author:Jill Biden
“For the first four years of my studying in the U.S., I couldn't go home for two reasons. One is I was afraid that if I left my student visa may not hold and I wouldn't be able to come back to continue. Second, there was this big outrage in China that I didn't know how to face the public.” IfsKnowsYearsFirstsMayTwoReasonHomeBigsAbleFacesLeftKnow HowStudyFourStudentsChinaFour YearsOutrageVisa Author:Amanda Schull
“Sixty-three percent of our university students are female. But you still see violations of women's rights in Iran. A Muslim man can have up to four wives. He can divorce his wife without offering any reason, while it is quite difficult for a woman to get a divorce.” MenStillsReasonThreeDifficultFourWifeRightsStudentsPercentFemaleUniversityDivorceIranOfferingSixtyWomens RightsViolationUniversity Students Author:Shirin Ebadi
“Although the only way that I'm well known at Illinois State is that I am the "grammar Nazi." And so any student whose deployment of a semi-colon is not absolutely Mozart-esque knows that they're going to get a C in my class, and so my classes tend to have like four students in them. It's really a lot of fun.” KnowsWayWellsStatesFunKnownClassFourStudentsNaziWell KnownGrammarDeploymentIllinois Author:David Foster Wallace
“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 internalized the new machine rhythm, the rush many of my young writers are in to publish. The majority don't want to sit on a book for four, five years. The majority don't want to listen to the silence inside and outside for their artistic imprimatur. The majority want to publish fast, publish now.” WantWritingYearsBookYoungSilenceClearFiveFourDyingStudentsMachinesMajorityRhythmArtisticFive YearsPublishPokeYoung WritersInside And Outside Author:Junot Diaz
“When I was in Hungary in December I was looking at student films and I could not tell which ones were shot on film and which ones were shot digitally. I think that is because the filmmakers in Europe go to four years of film school and learn the techniques.” ThinkingYearsSchoolFilmFourStudentsShotsEuropeTechniqueFilmmakerFour YearsDecemberFilm SchoolHungary Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“I'm also, than anything else, a teacher and a student. And without the four hours, I'm pretty monsterish. For real.” RealHoursTeacherFourStudents Author:Kiese Laymon