“My seminar is for highschool students, decent undergraduates, bright graduates, and outstanding professors.” StudentsDecentProfessorsGraduatesOutstandingSeminars Author:Israel Gelfand
“But you also are facing an uphill battle if you are trying to be the first teacher who asks students to think in class and they are already 16 years old.” IfsThinkingTryingYearsFirstsAsksClassTeacherStudentsBattleUphill Battles Author:Johnny Burnette
“Veblen once asked a religious student the value of her church in kegs of beer.” ValuesChurchReligiousStudentsBeerKegs Author:Robert Heilbroner
“After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby].” WholeSchoolFilmActorsActingStudentsLukeGreat ActorsFilm SchoolActors And Acting Author:Paul Dalio
“I have often said that it doesn't matter to me if a student tells me he is a leader of the left, unless he is a good student. We need good students.” IfsNeedsSaidMatterLeftLeaderStudentsGood Students Author:Salvador Allende
“One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old man and very unpleasant. But if you go to his Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany you see an enormous intellect at work with a language that was personal and new. It has a sense of urban design and of theater and procession I hadn't seen before.” IfsMenLanguageDesignStudentsHeroMetsTheaterIntellectEnormousGermanyOld ManTowersUrbanProcessionCrankyUrban DesignUnsung HeroPotsdam Author:Frank Gehry
“When I start my class I ask the students to write their signatures on pieces of paper and put them on a table. I have them look at them, and I point out, "They're all different, aren't they? That's you, that's you, that's you, that's you."” WritingLooksDifferentAsksClassPiecesStudentsPaperTablesSignatures Author:Frank Gehry
“One of the ways to reduce that barking would be to have volunteers come in especially for hte for the dogs and take each dog out for 45 minutes each day and spend quality time with the person - that would help reduce the stress and in fact, one of my students did a study on that.” WayPersonsFactsHelpingWould BeQualityStudyMinutesDogStudentsStressEach DayVolunteerQuality Time Author:Temple Grandin
“Ted Seabrooke, my wrestling coach, had a kind of Nietzschean effect on me in terms of not just his estimation of my limited abilities, but his decidedly philosophical stance about how to conduct your life, what you should do to compensate for your limitations. This was essential to me, both as a student - and not a good one - and as a wrestler who was not a natural athlete but who had found something he loved.” ShouldKindFoundTermNaturalAbilityEffectsStudentsEssentialsPhilosophicalAthleteCoachesLimitationWrestlingStanceWrestlerEstimation Author:John Irving
“Building on our Young South-east Asian Leaders Initiative, I'm hopeful that we can continue expand the ties and cooperation between our young people and students.” PeopleYoungLeaderStudentsBuildingSouthEastTiesHopefulCooperationInitiativeAsian Author:Barack Obama
“During that time, I began writing and designing the propaganda that we distributed to the students who we were trying to convince to join us.” WritingTryingDesignStudentsPropagandaConvince Author:Lewis Schiff
“I found that I loved producing that kind of propaganda and I loved the power that a few students with a Macintosh computer could wield. I was hooked on communications at that point.” KindFoundStudentsCommunicationComputerPropagandaHookedMacintoshMacintosh Computers Author:Lewis Schiff
“We do our universities a disservice when we brand them as a lost cause. There are some frightfully honest students out there, and when their questions are respectfully dealt with, many admit their vulnerability.” LostCausesHonestStudentsUniversityBrandsVulnerabilityDisserviceLost Cause Author:Ravi Zacharias
“I love 'The Office.' I'm in the premiere, and I'm maybe gonna shoot another episode this season, but I've been there since the very beginning, so when I found out this is the last year - I am a good Asian kid who was an A student - I wish I could be there to the end to see things through.” YearsEndsKidsLastsFoundWishStudentsOfficeSeasonsEpisodesLast YearAsianPremieres Author:Mindy Kaling
“I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use.” ThinkingUseValuesLanguageStudentsEverydayPlusEveryday Use Author:Monica Youn
“I was more tuned into the assassinations, the riots that were going on, like in Watts, and, in fact, my summer before my senior year in high school I went on the Experiment in International Living to Sweden, yes, with a group of students , you know, leisurely discussion over the summer about, you know, where we were going to go with our lives, and how did you how did, you know, being a born-again Christian mesh with being, you know, a socialist from New York.” KnowsYearsFactsSchoolChristianBornOur LivesGroupsNew YorkStudentsSummerHigh SchoolInternationalExperimentsDiscussionSocialistSeniorRiotAssassinationBorn AgainSwedenDid You KnowMeshSenior Year Author:Jill Stein
“There are 43 million people who are locked into predatory student loan debt, from which there is no exit.” PeopleMillionsStudentsDebtLockedLoanExitPredatoryStudent LoanNo Exit Author:Jill Stein
“A teacher told me this story some time ago: She asked her students to line up in order of how much power they thought they had relative to the others in the class, and they all fought to be last in line. They didn't want to acknowledge that they had personal power.” WantStoriesLastsOrderLinesClassTeacherStudentsAcknowledgeRelativePersonal Power Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“When I started teaching in the late 60s, in a time of student revolutions and changes, they changed in question of society and authority.” TeachingChangedStudentsRevolutionAuthorityLate Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“When I was in Wuhan, I went to the art school, which was one of the most important art schools in China, an enormous art school. One of the things that I saw is that the schools are very big and there are so many students. It is very difficult to me to teach creative activity to great numbers of people, because I think you need personal contact with students, you need to speak individually, you need individual contact between teachers and students, you need continuity. To me this is a problem in mass education in every society now.” PeopleThinkingNeedsArtImportantProblemBigsSchoolIndividualSpeakDifficultNumbersTeachCreativeSawsTeacherStudentsActivityMassChinaEnormousContactContinuityArt SchoolTeacher And Student Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“In the period of '60s to the '90s, British art schools were small, and the number of student was small. The personal contact was great.” ArtSchoolNumbersStudentsPeriodsBritishContactArt School Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“When I was teaching I often said to students that you are trying to be too creative, don't be too creative, because there is so much already in what you are making, you don't need to do very much. You just need to do a little bit, and that is a lot.” NeedsTryingLittlesSaidBitsCreativeTeachingStudentsLittle Bit Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“When I was a very young student I loved and admired the work of Sam Beckett, who is famously pessimistic, and whose writing is an extraordinary examination of emptiness. I wanted to be like Beckett. I don't have the same attitude toward the world, I'm naturally optimistic, and so of course I could never be like Beckett. You can't force yourself to become like someone you admire.” WorldWritingWantedYoungCoursesForceAttitudeStudentsExtraordinaryAdmireOptimisticEmptinessExaminationPessimisticBeckettYoung Students Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“In high school I went to the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. And this is like Fame. It's like that sort of prototypical, dancers in the hallway, theater students, musical students, art geeks. And it was a kindergarten in the truest sense of the world: a children's garden where I was able to sort of really come into myself as an artist, as a person, sexuality issues - like, all of this became something where there was a firming-up and a knowing that went on.” WorldChildrenPersonsArtAbleSchoolArtistKnowingIssuesStudentsFameHigh SchoolGardenTheaterMusicalSexualityDancerLos AngelesGeekCountyTruestKindergartenHallways Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Joseph Gotto, yeah. Just all-around one of the more inspiring artists - not because of any sort of specific content direction, but rather the respect that I had for his own work and the ability for him to translate his ideas into useful form for me as a student.” IdeasFormArtistAbilityStudentsYeahTranslateInspiring Artist Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I went back to my mother's house recently and I saw some of my earlier works as a 15-year-old art student. And a lot of them were reiterations of classic works.” YearsArtMotherHouseSawsStudentsClassicArt Students Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Mel [ Bochner] held large-form meetings with students. But the stronger points came through when we had the one-on-one critiques. And that's the system that works at Yale. There's the group critiques, and then there's the one-on-one critiques that happen in studio.” HappensFormGroupsStudentsStrongerMeetingsStudiosCritiqueYaleOne On One Author:Kehinde Wiley
“The work that I wanted to create wasn't being done then. I was too much concerned about fellow students, professors, institutional style [in Yale].” DoneWantedToo MuchStyleStudentsConcernedFellowsProfessorsYaleBeing Done Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces, essential components. You have to - you know, at this point I'm so used to operating within given assumptions about art. But when you're explaining art to art students or people who are new to this experience, you have to really go back to the fundamentals.” PeopleKnowsArtAgeYoungUsedGivenBreakPiecesTeachingStudentsEssentialsFundamentalsAssumptionBitesComponentsExplainingTeaching ArtArt Students Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen - whose language nobody can speak - to be very good permaculture people.” PeopleCoursesSpeakLanguageTeachingStudentsVery GoodDesertBloodyPermacultureBushmenNamibia Author:Bill Mollison
“For me, teaching is about weaving a web of connectedness between myself, my students, the subject I'm teaching, and the larger world.” WorldTeachingSubjectsStudentsConnectednessWeaving Author:Parker J. Palmer
“Although there are some enormously gifted lecturers and preachers who do create community with oratory, I like to do anything I can to engage my students with each other, with me, and with the subject. And the subject, I think, always has to take prominence.” ThinkingI CanCommunitySubjectsStudentsPreacherGiftedLecturerOratoryProminence Author:Parker J. Palmer
“Students want to know, "Are you painting by the numbers, or are you really present as a human being to what you are doing; and is it coming from inside of you?" So I would ask teachers this question: "Do you have a wellgrounded personal experience and conviction concerning whatever it is you are trying to teach?"” KnowsWantTryingHumansAsksHuman BeingsNumbersTeachTeacherStudentsPaintingConvictionPersonal Experiences Author:Parker J. Palmer
“People are always asking, "Is this person in front of me the same on the inside as he or she appears to be on the outside? Is there congruence between what's within that person and the words and actions I'm viewing and hearing externally?" Children ask that about their parents; students ask it about their teachers; parishioners ask it about their pastors and priests; employees ask it about their bosses; and in a democracy, citizens ask it about their political leaders.” PeopleChildrenPersonsActionPoliticalAsksParentLeaderDemocracyTeacherFrontsStudentsCitizensAskingHearingEmployeePriestsBossPastorPolitical LeadersWords And ActionsCongruence Author:Parker J. Palmer
“As I've started school I have a student-feeling wardrobe and then because I travel a lot, things feel very different for different places and days.” FeelsDifferentFeelingsSchoolStudentsWardrobeDifferent Place Author:Morgan Saylor
“There are other ways to motivate students than requiring them to take on debt or work long hours taking away from their studies. For example, we don't allow our kids to work during the school hours their freshman year. After that, they can work a little but not so much that it hurts their education.” WayYearsLittlesLongKidsSchoolHoursHurtStudyExampleStudentsDebtIt HurtsFreshmanLong HoursFreshman YearMotivate StudentsSchool Hours Author:Michelle Singletary
“If you haven't saved, your child may have to work. But do what you can to NEVER take out student or parent loans.” IfsMayChildrenParentHavensStudentsOur ChildrenSavedYour ChildrenLoan Author:Michelle Singletary
“We call for cancelling student debt, for bailing out young people like Wall Street was bailed out to the tune of $16 trillion.” PeopleYoungStreetsStudentsWallDebtTunesBailing Out Author:Jill Stein
“We call for a bailout for an entire generation that is basically held hostage by unpayable student-loan debt.” GenerationsStudentsDebtLoanHostageStudent LoanBailouts Author:Jill Stein
“Without the jobs being available to enable them to repay that [student-loan] debt in the course of their financial lifetimes, basically.We maintain that, yes, that's a significant chunk of change - it's $1.3 trillion - but what investment is more worth making than in a generation that does not have a future?” DoeJobsCoursesGenerationsStudentsLifetimeInvestmentFinancialAvailableDebtSignificantLoanChunksStudent Loan Author:Jill Stein
“One of the wonderful things that I've always loved as an art student, what I always loved about comics, was that they are interpreted differently by different graphic artists all the time, so now film is doing that thanks to Marvel Studios.” ArtDifferentFilmArtistWonderfulStudentsStudiosThanksWonderful ThingsGraphicGraphic ArtistArt Students Author:Tilda Swinton
“When I'm 18 years old, I'm at a friend's house. And his uncle looks me in me eye - you know, by this time I'm an over achiever, a pretty good student, etc. And he said I have the answer to your problems. I have the solution to your pain. And he held up this book. It's a bible. I didn't know what it was.” KnowsYearsLooksSaidBookProblemEyePainHouseAnswersStudentsSolutionsEtcUnclesAchieverGood Students Author:Paula White
“I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade level, that you maybe triple them up. You put, and have them choose, let's say 11 different Native American cultures. Maybe you give them a list of 15 and they choose 11 of those 15 so that they have some choice in the matter.” IfsGivingDifferentMatterChoicesCultureCoursesLevelsStudentsListsGradesNativeNative AmericanAmerican HistoryAmerican CultureWorkshopsNative American Culture Author:James W. Loewen
“The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.” ThinkingHas BeensDoneStudentsAssumptionTextbooksLayout Author:James W. Loewen
“A consolidation makes sense only if you can lower your overall interest rate. Many people consolidate by taking out a home equity line loan or home equity line of credit (HELOC), refinancing a mortgage, or taking out a personal loan. They then use this cheaper debt to pay off more expensive debt, most frequently credit card loans, but also auto loans, private student loans, or other debt.” PeopleIfsUseHomeInterestLinesPayStudentsRateCreditDebtCardsMake SenseExpensiveEquityLoanMortgageCheaperCredit CardInterest RateStudent LoanConsolidationHome Equity Author:Jean Chatzky
“Lately I feel being political is also about the company I keep and the ideas I put forward. When I do a curate a program or do a workshop, I want to make it intergenerational; I want to have women on the faculty and also among the students.” WantFeelsIdeasPoliticalCompanyStudentsProgramFacultyWorkshops Author:Vijay Iyer