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“I was never really cut out to be a student, I prefer to actually work and get a project done and learn that way- but I have a huge respect for good teachers and even enjoy teaching...I am a conundrum!”

Way Done Enjoy Teacher Cutting Teaching Students Huge Projects Good Teacher Conundrums

Author:Holly Golightly

“I would say this to my students all the time, it's about 30% you as the teacher and 70% about them. They tend to think that their role is to be the baby bird in a nest and you're going to feed them? They're going to feed themselves, or they're going to starve.”

Thinking Roles Teacher Students Baby Bird Nests

Author:Tim Gunn

“Being a student in an art & design school, that was the moment for me, that was when I began to develop a lot of self-confidence and really come into my own.”

Art Self Moments School My Own Design Students Self Confidence Art Design

Author:Tim Gunn

“When it comes to my vocabulary, I felt a responsibility when I was teaching to raise the bar of conversation in my classroom. And with my own students, I refused to let them use the phrase "I like" or "I don't like" when we were engaged in a critique.”

Use Felt My Own Responsibility Teaching Students Conversation Raises Bars Phrases Engaged Classroom Vocabulary Critique Raising The Bar

Author:Tim Gunn

“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.”

“I hated high school. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out in my parking lot.”

School Students Activity High School Hated My Time Hanging Out Parking Parking Lot

Author:Sarah Dessen

“I was actually kind of a hot mess in high school. I did a lot of things in high school I'm not proud of. I wasn't a good student and I wasn't particularly a good daughter. I wasn't very engaged.”

Kind School Students Proud Daughter High School Hot Mess Engaged Good Students Hot Mess

Author:Sarah Dessen

“I was a beast in college. I worked hard and I played hard. I was relentless learning about business. I actually snuck into MBA classes my freshman and sophomore years. I wanted to challenge myself to see how I compared to the smartest kids at Indiana University so I was 18 and pretended I was an MBA student.”

Years Hard Kids Wanted Challenges Class Students College University Beast Relentless Indiana Freshman Sophomore Mba Sophomore Year

Author:Mark Cuban

“Once you know that every moment and every person and every situation has something to teach you, you're a student all day. You know it's the depth of your observation that is the issue - not how much the world has to show you.”

Knows World Persons Moments Shows Situation Teach Issues Students Depth Observation

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I was really not a good student, and I felt that shame every day. That's one of the reasons I started smoking pot and drinking daily.”

Reason Felt Students Shame Drinking Smoking Pot Good Students Smoking Pot

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians”

Ifs Whole Used Issues Students Higher Politician Concepts Tests Determine Damn Grades Score Sole Pollution Criteria Higher Education

Book:Conversations with Ray Bradbury

Source: Conversations with Ray Bradbury

“Students judge how well they might do in a chemistry course from knowing how peers, who performed comparably to them in physics, fared in chemistry”

Wells Might Courses Knowing Students Judging Physics Chemistry Peers Self Efficacy

Book:Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

“Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.”

Thinking Trying May Two Courses Virtue Students Elements Benefits Intellectual Intelligent

Author:Maya Angelou

“The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the facts. I mean, that, that can come, but facts can stand in front of the truth and almost obscure the truth. It is imperative that students learn the truth of our history.”

Mean Important Matter Facts Fronts Students Truth Is Negative Obscure Imperatives

Author:Maya Angelou

“Sometimes when I teach a student something that I think is really simple, I realize I'm teaching them something they can do 90 percent of really easily and the last 10 percent is going to take them 10 years.”

Thinking Years Sometimes Lasts Can Do Realizing Simple Teach Teaching Students Percent

Author:Bruce Molsky

“My real purpose in telling middle-school students stories was to practice telling stories. And I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times. And the way I would justify it to the head teacher if he came in or to any parents who complained was, look, I'm telling these great stories because they're part of our cultural heritage. I did believe that.”

Ifs Way Believe Looks Real Stories School Purpose Parent Practice Teacher Middle Students Models Storytelling Justify Heritage Telling Stories Middle School Cultural Heritage Odyssey Iliad

Author:Philip Pullman

“It's always gratifying to hear from a passionate reader, and as a longtime educator, I'm especially pleased and heartened when that reader is a young student who is inspired to write me and let me know that my book has helped him or her find her way.”

Knows Way Writing Book Young Students Reader Let Me Inspired Passionate Educator Young Students

Author:Julia Alvarez

“I support charters, but the right kind of charters. I support charters that support kids who have the highest needs. A charter should be targeting students who are in serious trouble. It should serve students who didn't succeed in public schools when it can help them. Or, at least, charters should agree to accept similar proportions of the kids with the highest needs.”

Needs Should Kind Helping Kids School Accepting Support Trouble Students Serious Succeed Highest Agree Proportion Public School Charter

Author:Diane Ravitch

“I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn't just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.”

Accepting Violence Students South Missions South Africa

Author:Wole Soyinka

“There was no one, when I was in school, who talked about going in and blowing up students. The teachers were very stern and hateable, but nobody ever mentioned murder.”

School Teacher Students Murder Blowing Up

Author:Barry Hannah

“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.”

Thinking Knows Writing Believe Ideas Creative Worst Students Terrible Mets Majors Creative Writing Bad Ideas Undergraduate

Author:Barry Hannah

“In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.”

Humor School Funny Groups Students Mets High School Officials Survivor Association Rifles High School Students

Author:Tina Fey

“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."”

Knows Writing Doe Two Ideas Political Three Forget Four Students Organized Never Forget Irrelevant One Word Forget You Three Words Writing Words

Author:Dave Hickey

“I've always had my ear peeled for interesting music. As a student, I regularly spent time hunting for interesting repertoire, looking through music bins, buying stacks and stacks of CDs, and discovering rarely played pieces by composers.”

Interesting Pieces Students Ears Buying Composer Hunting Discovering Cds

Author:Anne Akiko Meyers

“I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.”

Way Trying Helping School Film Wish Students Goes On Admire Film School

Author:Agnes Varda

“I didn't speak a single word of English when I was told that I was one of the lucky students been selected to go to study at the Houston Ballet Academy. I knew I had to study hard in every aspect, in both language and dance, which I did. I put my whole heart and soul into each minute of my day while in America and what an experience those six weeks gave me.”

Heart Soul Hard Whole America Speak Language Study Week Minutes Students Lucky Six Aspect Ballet Academy Heart And Soul Selected Houston Single Word

Author:Li Cunxin

“The tenth social network, and limited only to college students with no money, also terrible. Myspace had won.”

Social Students College Terrible No Money Social Network College Students

Author:Sam Altman

“It's hard to have any moral authority over a group of drunken college students when you have never had a beer and never been laid.”

Hard Moral Groups Students College Authority Beer College Students Moral Authority

Author:Tom Green

“I had a student some years ago whose father had worked on the Manhattan Project. I had a student who had to escape this very intense, born-again fundamentalist Christian background that was very much like a cult and of course they struggle to get to Naropa. And they have cut themselves off. They don't look back.”

Years Looks Christian Courses Father Born Struggle Cutting Students Projects Years Ago Backgrounds Intense Cult Manhattan Born Again Fundamentalist Manhattan Project

Author:Anne Waldman

“I have students whose fathers are voting for Sarah Palin. It's wild.”

Father Students Voting Palin

Author:Anne Waldman

“I am a student of comparative religion, but whatever I read, you scratch a little bit and underneath is the oneness. You call it different names, yes, according to the time, according to the place, according to the people, but it is all one.”

People Littles Different Names Bits Students Little Bit Oneness Scratches Comparative Religion Different Names

Author:Irina Tweedie

“When you choose your profession, you also choose your own downfall or success. If one chooses to become an artist it is 99% certain that it will go to hell. So you should not become that. If you study economics on Oslo, 99% of all students will do very well and 1% will reach the top.”

Ifs Should Wells Artist Certain Hell Study Students Economics Profession You Choose Downfall Go To Hell Oslo

Author:Odd Nerdrum

“Too often, however, the church professes its faith but is unsure how to practice it. Even some of my seminary students come to theology classes somewhat reluctantly, assuming that doctrine is neither practical nor relevant to their future ministry.”

Church Class Practice Students Assuming Practicals Theology Doctrine Relevant Ministry Unsure Seminary

Author:Kevin Vanhoozer

“Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the conditions and problems that most concern me - anti-colonial theories, Foucault, critical disability studies, prison studies and the like are rarely seen in standard US Law School curricula, where students are still fighting on many campuses to get a single class on race or poverty offered - I developed most of my thinking about these topics through activist reading groups and collaborative writing projects with other activist scholars.”

“A lot of times students will come up to me and say, "Well, I can't write because I don't know what I think about such-and-such." And I say, "That's why you have to write." You don't wait until you know, because then who cares - it's static.”

Thinking Knows Writing Wells I Can Care Waiting Students Come Up Who Cares Static

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“I'm always trying to ask myself both "Who am I as an individual?" and "What are the cultural forces that have made me the person that I am?" How can I understand myself as a cultural creature as well as an individual? I'm really obsessed with that question, and always asking my students to consider it.”

Trying Wells Persons Made Asks Individual Force Students Creatures Asking Obsessed Always Trying

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in students who want to write, the mystery of how artistic talent unfolds.”

Want Writing Process Mystery Teaching Talent Students Discipline Findings Admire Artistic Artistic Process Artistic Talent

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“I think I give far more space and play to avant-garde writing than any other contemporary textbook author. I want students to be able to decide for themselves which aesthetics are closest to their own. Still, while I try not to be a nostalgist myself, I suppose I am drawn to those poignant moments in our lives, rendered clearly and artfully.”

Thinking Want Giving Writing Trying Stills Play Moments Able Space Our Lives Students Contemporary Closest Aesthetics Textbooks Poignant Avant Garde Moments In Our Lives

Author:David Starkey

“I believe in the hand-brain, pencil-to-paper-brain connection. In fact, I teach and I have the first year students do all of their drafting by hand to remind them that there is this physical connection between the two.”

Years Firsts Believe Two Facts Hands I Believe Brain Teach Students Paper Connections I Believe In Pencils Drafting

Author:Jennifer Tipton

“I often notice how students can gain the capacity to use certain critical methodologies through engaging with very different texts - how a graphic novel about gentrification and an anthology about Hurricane Katrina and a journalistic account of war profiteering might all lead to very similar classroom conversations and critical engagement. I'm particularly interested in this when teaching law students who often resist reading interdisciplinary materials or materials they interpret as too theoretical.”

“I strive to find materials that will engage students, expand their capacities as critical readers and thinkers, and feel immediately relevant to their daily lives and future work in court and social service systems.”

Feels Social Students Materials Reader Capacity Court Strive Critical Daily Life Thinker Relevant Social Service Future Work

Author:Dean Spade

“I see top business schools working to bridge this gap [between academic research and business application] by respecting executive education, by having more mature students who proactively draw from faculty what they know they need, and by having faculty who are willing to leave their ivory towers for the murky world of business reality. Unfortunately, at other times, business professors have little or not interest or savvy about business issues.”

“Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves.”

Giving Chance Creative Teacher Students Privacy Creative Life

Author:Jan Brett

“I read Macbeth as a secondary student in Nigeria and it was like an African play to me. It had all the right elements - witches, kings and assassinations.”

Play Students Kings Elements Witch Nigeria Assassination

Author:Sefi Atta

“As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar to me - very African.”

Literature Felt Novel Students England Familiar Rhythm English Literature

Author:Sefi Atta

“I'm an artist in residence, I've still been able to accept commercial jobs, and what I'll do is I'll make little videos on the side that I then bring back to the school and show the students the next day.”

Littles Stills Shows Able School Jobs Artist Next Sides Accepting Students Video Next Day Residence

Author:Gregory Heisler

“When you do well in school as a young person you can foresee a bountiful future for yourself. When you don't do well, the future you see is bleak. It's tough to find an honour student in trouble with the law. We have to feel that we're of value and we get that from people reacting to our prudence.”

People Feels Wells Persons School Law Young Values Trouble Students Tough Honour Prudence Reacting Bleak

Author:George Chuvalo

“I emphasize the dual mission of the Life Cube Project: involving as many members of the community as possible; and encouraging people to write down their goals, ambitions and wishes. I hope that the concept has an impact on these students' lives - that would be my dream.”

People Writing Dream Would Be Wish Goal Community Students Members Ambition Projects Concepts Impact Missions Involving Cubes Student Life

Author:Scott Cohen

“Some poems take two to three years to finish. Rarely, a poem will arrive whole. It's nice when that happens. However, process has become so grueling for me over the past few years that when one of my students uses the word "inspiration" I practically shriek with laughter.”

Years Two Whole Use Inspiration Happens Past Three Process Nice Students Laughter Three Years Over The Past

Author:Cate Marvin

“I love teaching poetry writing. Students come into the class thinking poetry has to be one way, then leave having created pieces that are wholly original, that have - quite literally - never been made before.”

Thinking Way Writing Made Class Pieces Teaching Students Originals One Way Love Teaching

Author:Cate Marvin

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