“[Eric]Goldman [a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law] says back in the 1990s, courts began to confront the question of whether software code is a form of speech. Goldman says the answer to that question came in a case called Bernstein v. U.S. Department of Justice. Student Daniel Bernstein who created an encryption software called Snuffle. He wanted to put it on the Internet. The government tried to prevent him, using a law meant to stop the export of firearms and munitions. Goldman says the student argued his code was a form of speech.” GovernmentWantedSchoolFormLawJusticeAnswersCasesStudentsInternetSpeechCourtUniversityCodeDepartmentProfessorsSoftwareSantaEricFirearmsEncryptionClara Author:Laura Sydell
“The future of the Democratic Party, the future of this country is involving young people in the political process, getting them to stand up for their rights, dealing with student debt, which I got to tell you is just crushing people all over this country, making public colleges and universities tuition free, those are the ideas we are bringing out, demanding the wealthy and large corporations start paying their fair share of taxes. This is what younger people, working class people want. That is the future of the Democratic Party.” PeopleWantIdeasCountryYoungPoliticalProcessPartyClassRightsShareStudentsCollegeTaxesFairsDemocraticUniversityDebtCorporationsCrushWealthyWorking ClassDemocratic PartyInvolvingTuitionFair ShareColleges And Universities Author:Bernie Sanders
“Many of our students want to do what they have done and that has made them successful thus far in their lives: play by the rules, and do what is expected. But as much social science research and writing by Malcolm Gladwell, among others, make clear, the rules are mostly created by those already in power so obtaining power often entails standing out and breaking rules and social conventions.” WantWritingMadeDonePlaySocialSuccessfulClearStudentsResearchStandingExpectedConventionsStanding OutObtainingSocial ScienceBreaking RulesScience ResearchResearch And Writing Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“With repeated listenings, a piece eventually becomes its own being. I very often say to students that this is like meeting a person for the first time. When you first meet someone, you reference that person with others who are similar; but, as you get to know that person better, you begin to understand his unique qualities.” KnowsFirstsPersonsQualityPiecesStudentsListeningUniqueFirst TimeMeetings Author:Paul Lansky
“Over 60 percent of the university students in Iran are female. The women in Iran are better educated than men.” MenStudentsPercentFemaleUniversityEducatedIranUniversity Students Author:Shirin Ebadi
“Current education in science treats all students as if they were going to have scientific careers. They are required to solve problems and memorize lists. For many of them, this kills interest very quickly.” IfsProblemInterestCareersStudentsTreatsCurrentsSolveLists Author:Philip Kitcher
“In my view, all students should be given an initial opportunity to pursue the science track as far as it goes. But for those who quickly decide that track isn't for them, a different style of teaching is in order.” ShouldDifferentOrderOpportunityGivenViewsTeachingStyleStudentsTrackPursueInitialsDifferent Styles Author:Philip Kitcher
“I am a man who used to wear the tights. We traveled the country doing two Shakespeare plays for bored college students for about a year. I think I'd probably still be doing it now if I hadn't just randomly decided to go to a sketch group audition. That led to doing improv, which led to the Daily Show. But it was fun while it lasted.” IfsThinkingMenYearsStillsTwoCountryPlayShowsUsedFunGroupsStudentsCollegeDecidedBoredTraveledAuditionsCollege StudentsTightsDaily ShowShakespeare Play Author:Rob Corddry
“When I was a junior in college I moved to New York and went to this performance school the Experimental Theatre Wing. We had singing class and again, some of the other students would cry when I was singing, and I really didn't know why. I started to realize that there was something in the tone of my voice that was evocative for them.” KnowsSchoolVoiceRealizingClassCryNew YorkStudentsCollegeSingingPerformancesMovedWingsTheatreToneJuniors Author:Antony Hegarty
“I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its way in there, whether I like it or not.” WayKindUseTeachStudentsTheoryNarrativeManuscripts Author:Rob Roberge
“A lot of my students have been quite notable. Notable in both the personal sense - people who have changed my life - and notable in that many have gone on to enormous success in their writing careers. Whether or not I had a lot to do with those success stories, I'm very proud and happy for my former students getting on the map.” PeopleWritingHas BeensStoriesCareersGoneChangedStudentsProudEnormousFormerMapsNotableChanged My LifeSuccess StoriesFormer Students Author:Rob Roberge
“You know, if I look at an auditorium full of high school students and the big man on campus and his girlfriend are busy talking while the lecture's going on, the rest of the room is going to do it because they're powerful sneezers. They have influence. They reach out to a whole bunch of people in a way that makes the idea of being disrespectful spread.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWayLooksIdeasWholeBigsSchoolRoomsPowerfulTalkingInfluenceStudentsHigh SchoolBusySpreadBunchGirlfriendReach OutLecturesCampusDisrespectfulAuditoriumsHigh School Students Author:Seth Godin
“I am a student of universal spiritual principles, and I read theology and spiritual writings, so my grasp of basic spiritual principles is fairly good.” WritingSpiritualPrinciplesStudentsUniversalTheology Author:Marianne Williamson
“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
“There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters advanced math concepts - algebra, geometry, statistics and probability.” CommonEffortStudentsMastersStandardsConceptsRaisesIntentionMathCoreStatisticsProbabilityGeometryAlgebraCommon Core Author:Anya Kamenetz
“Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should we continue to compel students to try to pass them?” ShouldTryingUsedSubjectsStudentsArguingGraduatesAndrewAlgebraCalculusHackersTrigonometry Author:Anya Kamenetz
“There is number of different efforts around the country are to try to redesign the math pathway and the courses that students have to take to make it more applicable to the real world.” WorldTryingDifferentRealCountryCoursesNumbersEffortStudentsMathReal WorldPathwaysRedesign Author:Anya Kamenetz
“A majority of students who come into community colleges are still stuck at high school level or remedial math. And when they take it in college, they still don't pass it. So the Carnegie Foundation got together and created two accelerated courses that focus on real-world applications of numbers like for health, for civics, for personal finance - concepts that you and I use every single day.” WorldStillsTwoRealUseSchoolTogetherCoursesCommunityLevelsNumbersFocusStudentsCollegeHigh SchoolConceptsFoundationMajorityMathStuckFinanceReal WorldApplicationCivicsPersonal FinanceCarnegieCommunity College Author:Anya Kamenetz
“When I first moved to New York I had been trying to work on anything and everything I could. From extra work and commercials to short and student films so I could learn in front of a camera.” TryingFirstsFilmFrontsNew YorkStudentsCamerasMovedExtrasAnything And EverythingExtra Work Author:Pawel Szajda
“All of which suggested literary translation, and Korean seemed a good bet - barely anything available in English, yet it was a modern, developed country, so the work had to be out there, plus the rarity would make it both easier to secure a student grant and more of a niche when it came to work.” CountryModernStudentsEasierAvailableSecurePlusGrantsTranslationsNicheKoreanRarityDeveloped Country Author:Deborah Smith
“Elementary and high school students will still be tested under the new law. There just won't be so much riding on the scores. Also the arts didn't disappear under the old law, No Child Left Behind. But, Christopher Woodside of the National Association for Music Education says with so much time spent testing math and reading, the arts suffered.” ChildrenArtStillsSchoolLawReadingLeftBehindsStudentsHigh SchoolMathDisappearScoreAssociationRidingTestedTestingLeft BehindTime SpentMusic EducationHigh School StudentsNo Child Left Behind Author:Elizabeth Blair Lee
“It's now up to the states to figure out how they implement that definition of a well-rounded education, in other words, where they spend federal funds. The new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, has suggestions like computer science, health, foreign language and geography. So there's no guarantee the arts will now flourish. Arts advocates are ready to help states and school districts with their plans.” WellsArtStatesHelpingSchoolLawLanguagePlansFiguresStudentsReadySucceedComputerDefinitionsGuaranteesFundSuggestionsGeographyComputer ScienceForeign LanguageWell RoundedSchool Districts Author:Elizabeth Blair Lee
“I don't therefore know how to write for the big papers. It must be kids - students - and retired people. And the reality is they are overwhelmed with people sending in their holiday stories and bits and pieces and so on.” PeopleKnowsWritingStoriesBigsRealityKidsBitsKnow HowPiecesStudentsPaperHolidayPapersOverwhelmedRetiredBits And Pieces Author:John Gimlette
“I feel that students always learn more from each other than they do from their professor. They learn by doing and not by trying to soak up information from one person.” FeelsTryingPersonsInformationStudentsProfessors Author:Pauline Oliveros
“No matter how long you spend at creation, you're always a student.” LongMatterCreationStudents Author:Marcus Sakey
“My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students.” DifferentEnoughBrainTeachTeachingStudentsLuckySmartGraduatesVery SmartGraduate Students Author:Dana Spiotta
“Students are suffering under incredibly high tuitions and high student loan interest rates. They graduate from school, and they're having a very difficult time finding a job. They don't feel as though there are honest leaders who are listening to them, and who will be a part of the solution.” FeelsSchoolJobsSufferingDifficultInterestLeaderHonestStudentsListeningFindingsSolutionsRateGraduatesLoanDifficult TimesInterest RateTuitionStudent Loan Author:Tulsi Gabbard
“I meet almost no one that goes to an African-American church or thinks, "I'm going to do that." Now there are whites in African-American churches. They're interracially married. They're highly committed. Maybe there's a professor or two, or a student.” ThinkingTwoChurchStudentsMarriedCommittedAfrican AmericanProfessors Author:Michael Emerson
“A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films.” LooksArtShowsFilmStudentsBoring Author:Max Tundra
“Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes.” TryingTurnsCausesPoorStudentsAshes Author:Annie Dillard
“If you have credit card debt and credit card companies continue to close down the cards, what are you going to do? What are you going to do if they raise your interest rates to 32 percent? That's five times higher than what your kid is going to pay in interest on a student loan. Get rid of your credit card debt.” IfsKidsInterestPayCompanyFiveStudentsHigherPercentRaisesRateCreditDebtCardsLoanCredit CardInterest RateStudent LoanCredit Card Debt Author:Suze Orman
“Remember that in most cases, student loan debt is not dischargeable in bankruptcy. So you continue to pay it off anyway. Those who have very low interest rates (2-2.5 percent) on student loans and know everything is secure, great.” KnowsRememberInterestPayCasesStudentsLowsPercentRateDebtSecureLoanBankruptcyInterest RateStudent Loan Author:Suze Orman
“But credit card debt is unsecured debt, which means if you get in trouble and cannot pay off your credit card, you can discharge it in bankruptcy. What are they going do to you? If you're in a financial position to just methodically pay off both credit card and student loans, pay them all.” IfsMeanPayTroublePositionStudentsFinancialCreditDebtCardsLoanCredit CardBankruptcyDischargeStudent LoanCredit Card Debt Author:Suze Orman
“My colleagues and I have done a survey of 13,000 students on more than 17 campuses, and we found that while sex in college has always been a bit more casual, "hooking up" has pretty much replaced other traditional forms of dating.” DoneFormFoundSexBitsStudentsCollegeDatingTraditionalReplacedColleaguesCasualSurveysCampus Author:Michael Kimmel
“I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.” ThinkingWritingFactsSchoolStudentsParticularListeningReflection Author:Feist
“I dropped out of high school and I tried to go to community college for a little while. I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.” LittlesI CanSchoolCommunityStudentsCollegeHigh SchoolLifestyleHatedCommunity College Author:Zach Condon
“I was a very good student until about sophomore year, and that's when I just became so disillusioned with the whole thing that I just became an awful student. I was still making good grades. But I was cutting class three days a week and faking papers that I got off the internet.” YearsStillsWholeThreeClassCuttingWeekStudentsInternetPaperVery GoodAwfulGradesPapersDisillusionedSophomoreGood StudentsGood GradesSophomore Year Author:Zach Condon
“When I would present my work as a student, often I would hear, "Your project is too formal" - it's too form-based; it's too form-driven. Which is kind of shocking for a visual practice, for someone to say something discouraging about a focus on an exploration of aesthetics.” KindFormPracticeFocusStudentsProjectsDrivenVisualsExplorationFormalShockingAestheticsDiscouraging Author:Jimenez Lai
“The notion that you go to a public institution in order to learn private information about yourself is absurd. We used to understand that when students went to universities, they would become cosmopolitan. They were leaving their neighborhoods.” UsedOrderInformationStudentsInstitutionsNotionLeavingUniversityAbsurdNeighborhoodAbout Yourself Author:Richard Rodriguez
“Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art.” ArtHardFunStudentsGraduatesLove MakingGraduate Students Author:Nell Irvin Painter
“Well, I tried being in front of the camera as a student and that was terrifying. But the press stuff about me growing up on his [film] sets has been exaggerated. I was an extra as a kid and I was also a PA [production assistant] on one of his movies, so I was lucky to get production experience. But I was nowhere near him.” WellsHas BeensKidsFilmStuffGrowing UpGrowingFrontsStudentsLuckyCamerasPressesProductionsExtrasAssistantsExaggeratedFilm Set Author:Nicole Holofcener
“When I was young, I went to college, had a teacher who was, had been a student of Trilling's at Columbia, this was in California. And he, I started reading him around that time, and then I went to Columbia as well, Trilling was still teaching there, I took a course with him. He was not a great teacher, but he was, when I was younger, he was a good model for the kind of criticism I wanted to do, because he thought very dialectically.” WellsKindStillsWantedYoungCoursesReadingTeacherTeachingStudentsCollegeModelsCriticismCaliforniaGreat TeacherColumbia Author:Louis Menand
“My own view is that the general education curriculum that a college picks has to be appropriate for the kind of student body that it has.” KindBodyMy OwnViewsStudentsCollegePicksAppropriateCurriculumGeneral Education Author:Louis Menand
“I don't think the same curriculum fits every student body.” ThinkingBodyStudentsFitCurriculum Author:Louis Menand
“You have to have students wanting to take the courses, otherwise you're not going, they're not going to be very effective.” CoursesStudents Author:Louis Menand
“Harvard has something that manages, I think, to provide a lot of options for students, but still fairly prescriptive about the kinds of subjects that the courses ought to cover.” ThinkingKindStillsCoursesSubjectsStudentsOughtManageHarvard Author:Louis Menand
“The way universities operate is the decision about what students need for the degree are... is the decision made by the faculty.” WayNeedsMadeDecisionStudentsDegreesUniversityFacultyDecisions Made Author:Louis Menand
“Obviously input is helpful to faculty in trying to come up with a curriculum, but ultimately it's the faculty's job to know what students need to know. Make a decision about it and present it.” KnowsNeedsTryingJobsDecisionStudentsCome UpHelpfulFacultyCurriculumInput Author:Louis Menand
“It's difficult to get a job and people stay in school longer because they're employed as teaching assistants or instructors by their schools, by their schools where they're graduate students, and that does become exploitative eventually because they're very cheap labor and there's a way in which in it's not in the institution's interest to give them a degree if they can continue to employ them, I don't think anybody thinks that way, but effectively that's the way the system is starting to work.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayGivingDoeSchoolJobsDifficultInterestTeachingStudentsDegreesLaborInstitutionsStartingGraduatesEmployedAssistantsInstructorsGraduate StudentsCheap LaborStay In School Author:Louis Menand
“I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn't do was respond to microphones being thrust in my face and saying, what is your relationship with Obama and are you an unrepentant terrorist?” FacesCertainStudentsTaughtUniversityTerroristSpokesOur RelationshipThrustMicrophonesForums Author:Bill Ayers