“In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.” ThinkingArtMadeStudentsLateMajorsArt IsMajor Change Author:Bill Viola
“Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this history should be taught accurately and based on the best scholarship, not ideology or politics.” ShouldCoursesStudentsTaughtCivilizationMajorsIdeologyContinentsScholarship Author:Diane Ravitch
“I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.” WorstStudentsDegreesMajorsProgramGraduates Author:William Shatner
“I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before.” WorldWantHas BeensHappensNextEnergySpaceWatchesGoneStudentsTaughtSourceMajorsIntellectualCapacityMortalsAweBreakthroughSpace TravelRenewable EnergyEnergy SourcesRenewable Energy Sources Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“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
“Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.” MadeDoneTeacherPossibilityStudentsRight NowMajorsIntellectualWarmMade ItFriendlyDestroyingSingle Relationship Author:William Glasser
“Women are different from men in major, major ways. I have found more courage in women than you could ever find in men, and I love men, in terms of father, brother, everyone, disciples, students etc. Yet men have certain powers of compassion that are hard-pressed to be found in a woman to that degree.” MenWayDifferentHardCertainFoundFatherTermCompassionStudentsBrotherDegreesMajorsEtcDisciple Author:Maya Tiwari
“In colleges, there are no gender separations in courses of study, and students can freely choose their majors. There are no male and female math classes. But women generally choose college courses that pay less in the labor market. Those are the choices that women themselves make. Those choices contribute to the pay gap.” RealityChoicesCoursesCommunityWorkMoneyPayEducationClassStudyHuman NatureStudentsCollegeEqualMajorsCapitalismFemaleLaborMalesIndividualityGenderMathSeparationIdeologyGapsEqual RightsMath ClassPay GapCollege Courses Book:Phyllis Schlafly: Volume I Source: Phyllis Schlafly: Volume I
“When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would soon stand equal with men in science. But progress has proved slower than many of us imagined.” MenProgressStudentsEqualLateMajorsFemaleFellowsPhysics Author:Margaret Wertheim
“Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy is a major contribution to art therapy literature and practice. Laury Rappaport introduces a contemplative method and philosophy grounded in the body's felt-sense of experience and its innate and largely unrecognized wisdom. This intellectually provocative, yet thoroughly practical text, establishes Rappaport as an emergent leader in the art therapy world and author of a book that every student and art therapist must read in order to appreciate the depth and breadth of our discipline.” WorldArtBookPhilosophyBodyOrderLiteratureFeltLeaderPracticeStudentsDisciplineMajorsAppreciateMethodDepthPracticalsTherapyContributionIntroducingGroundedInnateTherapistsProvocativeBreadthContemplativeArt Therapy Author:Shaun McNiff
“I don't really believe in a creative-writing major as an undergraduate. It's a bad idea, terrible. I've met creative-writing majors from other places and they don't know a goddamn thing. They're the worst students. They just think they're good because they could pass.” ThinkingKnowsWritingBelieveIdeasCreativeWorstStudentsTerribleMetsMajorsCreative WritingBad IdeasUndergraduate Author:Barry Hannah
“I went to Oberlin College, and they don't have a film major, but they do have what's called an individual major, where you can sort of pitch to a committee your own course study, and if they approve it, you have essentially just designed your own major. So Oberlin doesn't have a film major; they do have a film minor... And then my spring semester of my junior year, I went off to NYU film school as a visiting student - they have a program for kids from other schools to come in for a semester.” IfsYearsKidsSchoolFilmCoursesIndividualStudyStudentsCollegeMajorsSpringProgramMinorsCommitteesJuniorsVisitingFilm SchoolSemesterNyuJunior Year Author:Ed Helms
“A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.” MayTeacherStudentsMajorsPopsContributionGrandchildrenExes Author:Wendell Berry
“In a speech at the just-concluded G20 summit in London, President Obama urged Americans not to let their fears crimp their spending. It would be unwise, he argued, for Americans to let the fear of job loss, lack of savings, unpaid bills, credit card debt or student loans deter them from making major purchases. According to the president, 'we must spend now as an investment for the future'....instead of saving for the future, we must spend for the future.” Would BeJobsPresidentLossStudentsSpeechMajorsBillsInvestmentCreditDebtSpendingLondonCardsSavingPresident ObamaLoanSummitSavingsCredit CardUnwiseStudent LoanCredit Card DebtJob Loss Author:Peter Schiff
“America's universities are filled with economically ignorant haters of the free market, so university campuses have become major forums for union denunciations of such companies as Nike, Wal-mart, and others. Faculty and students claim to be concerned about 'social justice,' but they are simply being used as dupes by unions who are not at all concerned with justice of any sort. Rather, their main concern is increasing the coffers of union treasuries by driving non-union competitors from the market.” AmericaUsedSocialJusticeCompanyStudentsMajorsConcernConcernedClaimsSocial JusticeFilledUnionsUniversityDrivingIgnorantFacultyCompetitorsFree MarketCampusTreasuryForumsNikeDupes Author:Thomas DiLorenzo
“Professors and students claim to be on a quest for truth while denying that it exists or that anyone could identify it if it did. Such is the nihilistic atmosphere in major universities around the world.” IfsWorldStudentsMajorsClaimsUniversityAround The WorldAtmosphereProfessorsQuests Author:Dave Hunt
“You know, students who major in elementary education - they're going to be grade school teachers - they have the highest rates of math anxiety of any college major. And they bring that into the classroom. So you find students being introduced to math concepts by teachers who may have not only a lack of training but also a lack of enthusiasm about math.” KnowsMaySchoolTeacherStudentsCollegeAnxietyMajorsHighestTrainingConceptsRateMathEnthusiasmGradesClassroomSchool TeachersGrades In School Author:Anya Kamenetz
“I studied physics at Princeton when I was a college student, and my initial intention was to major in it but to also be a writer. What I discovered, because it was a very high-powered physics program with its own fusion reactor, was that to keep up with my fellow students in that program I would need to dedicate myself to math and physics all the time and let writing go. And I couldn't let writing go, so I let physics go and became a science fan and a storyteller.” NeedsWritingFansStudentsCollegeMajorsProgramFellowsIntentionMathPhysicsStorytellerInitialsFusionCollege StudentsPrinceton Author:Jon Spaihts
“There was a Yale even before Larry [Kramer] and I got there, and there were three designations of students: "white shoe," "brown shoe," and "black shoe." "White shoe" people were kind of the ur-preppies from high-class backgrounds. "Brown shoe" people were kind of the high school student-council presidents who were snatched up and brushed up a little bit to be sent out into the world. "Black shoe" people were beyond the pale. They were chemistry majors and things like that.” PeopleWorldKindLittlesSchoolThreeBitsBlackPresidentWhiteClassStudentsMajorsLittle BitHigh SchoolShoesBackgroundsBrownChemistryPaleCouncilLarryYaleDesignationHigh School StudentsKramerHigh ClassWhite ShoesStudent Council Author:Kevin Sessums
“I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.” ProblemThreeSexEducationLearningStudentsMajorsFacultyAthleticAthleticsCampusParkingAdministrativeAlumni Author:Clark Kerr
“I established relationships with so many of those Iran students that went on for years.And they were so different from American students. They seemed to worship their teachers. The professors were major to them. They wanted to give gifts, and you'd have to say, oh, no, no, you can't do that.” GivingYearsDifferentWantedTeacherStudentsWorshipMajorsIranProfessors Author:David C. Driskell
“I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.” GovernmentStudentsCollegeMajorsTheater Author:Demetri Martin
“Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.” WorldYearsMindHas BeensRealityPastClearModernDesignStudentsMajorsIdeologyDesignerObserversFlexibleCantOver The PastInquisitiveIndustrial DesignInquisitive Minds Author:Camille Paglia
“As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.” ChildrenLongLanguageStudentsDevelopmentPaperMajorsModelsMathematicalGraduatesJournalConnectingDotsGraduate StudentsConnecting The DotsMathematical ModelsLanguage Development Author:Steven Pinker
“See how exciting Anthropology is? He’s a leading expert in ancient Greece. Now you should all change your majors so that you can ogle men like him all day long. Or better yet, uncover naked male statues. (Tory) Was that necessary? (Acheron) Hey, I live to recruit students for the department. If I can make you good for something, then by golly I’m going to do it. (Tory)” IfsMenShouldLongI CanStudentsMajorsExcitingMalesAncientNakedHeyExpertsDepartmentGreeceStatuesAnthropologyRecruitAncient Greece Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon