“But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a Watteau drawing or an inaccurate transcription of a fourteenth-century epigraph is a sin against the spirit and in the afternoon or evening transmits to the agents of Soviet intelligence classified, perhaps vital information given to him in sworn trust by his countrymen and intimate colleagues. What are the sources of such scission? How does the spirit mask itself?” ThinkingMenDoeMomentsSpiritGivenSinTeachMorningCenturyInformationStudentsSourceDrawingAgentsEveningIntimateMaskAfternoonSovietColleaguesTransmitCountrymenAttributionEpigraphsTranscription Book:George Steiner: A Reader Source: George Steiner: A Reader
“I say that our system of tests and grades, as it now exists, is one source of the low yield of great men from our universities. The marking system is a traumatic experience from which most students emerge with a deep determination never to get into a situation where they can be marked again. They just won't ever again take a chance.” MenChanceEducationSituationStudentsSourceLowsDeterminationTestsUniversityGreat MenGradesYieldTake A ChanceTraumatic Experiences Author:Edwin Land
“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
“I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. [...] As a matter of pure education, it's shocking that we [the americans] are not compelled to learn the book, which is the source of our language, our common stories, our political structure, our conflicts.” ThinkingShouldBookMatterStoriesSchoolPoliticalLanguageCommonStudyStudentsSourcePureConflictStructureShockingCompelledPublic School Author:David Plotz
“I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it.” IfsWritingMayDifferentDoneStudentsSourceMetsSkillsComputerProgramBe GoodCodeComputer Science Book:Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman Source: Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman
“When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which the students and I try to expand the terminology we use to talk about poetry as well as expand our notion of what makes a poem - we read source texts on architecture, dance, photography, film and the graphic novel.” TryingWellsUseFilmClassTeachNovelStudentsSourcePhotographyNotionArchitectureGraduatesTopicsGraphicGraphic NovelsTerminologySeminars Author:Matthea Harvey
“I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.” FormClassToo MuchStudentsSourceTerribleMichigan Author:Bill Ayers
“My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of my students.” JoySpecialStudentsSourcePride Author:Elie Wiesel