“Reagan thought that school prayer was important because it was crucial to begin each day reminding students that their inalienable rights came to them from their Creator and not from government bureaucrats.” ImportantGovernmentSchoolPrayerRightsStudentsCreatorEach DayCrucialRemindingBureaucratsInalienable Rights Author:Paul Kengor
“There are hundreds and thousands of young Americans who cannot or will not receive an education, because in order to get an education, you have to spend money. Students come out of college and universities with unbelievable debt. It's not right, it's not fair, and it's not just, in a society such as ours. And those dollars are not going to the teachers.” YoungOrderTeacherStudentsCollegeFairsDollarsUniversityDebtUnbelievableNot FairColleges And Universities Author:John Lewis
“People ask me a lot of questions and I don't always have the time to stop and talk, but I do a lot of email mentorship with college students. So if I meet a college kid during a motivational speech or something like that I'll stop and say, "I see you need help in this area. Here's my email. Let me help." So, it's just my way of giving back.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsGivingHelpingKidsAsksStudentsCollegeSpeechAreasLet MeMy WayAsk MeEmailGiving BackNeed HelpCollege StudentsMotivational Speech Author:Chrisette Michele
“I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it's still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. But it isn't necessarily a small minority of the wealthy elite in the city of Lahore. It can often be and I often do meet at literary festivals students who've ridden a bus 12 hours from a very small town just to hear some of their favorite writers come and speak.” PeopleFeelsSaidStillsYoungSpeakHoursCitiesFictionNovelStudentsTownsEngagedMinoritiesWealthyBusElitesPakistanSmall TownFestivalsOften IsLahore Author:Mohsin Hamid
“I do like the idea of the novel of repressed college students being a contemporary novel of courtship! I guess what I would say to that is, we tend to think of historical periods and historical mores as ending a lot more concretely than they do. Like, in an Austen novel, there are lots of reasons - cultural, moral, religious - why the characters don't have sex during courtship. Maybe, even though those reasons have kind of expired, historically, they're still around in some sense.” ThinkingKindStillsIdeasReasonCharacterSexReligiousMoralNovelStudentsCollegePeriodsHistoricalContemporaryCourtshipRepressedAustenCollege StudentsExpired Author:Elif Batuman
“A smart politician needs to come in and create a plan for when our students graduate college, there are opportunities in fields that interest them and a job that's a career. A president whose plans can embrace and incorporate every millennial will be successful.” NeedsJobsOpportunityPresidentInterestCareersSuccessfulPlansFieldsStudentsCollegePoliticianSmartEmbraceBeing SuccessfulGraduatesMillennials Author:Soledad O'Brien
“When I was a student I did a report on Madagascar, and ever since then it was my biggest dream to go there. Three years ago I went, and it was so different. We live in this high tech world with Facebook, Twitter, and mobile phones, and there you land and you have nothing. Yet the people live and get by every day walking in the roads, living this super simple life, and they're still happy. It is an experience that keeps you humble, puts things in perspective.” PeopleWorldYearsStillsDifferentDreamThreeSimpleLandStudentsPerspectiveWalkingYears AgoPhonesHumbleReportsThree YearsMobileSimple LifeMobile PhonesMadagascar Author:Irina Shayk
“I have a process that I seem to always, to some degree, as a writer, adhere to, but I certainly have never imposed the way I write a novel on my students. When I had students, I never said, "You should never start writing a novel until you have the last sentence." I never did that, and I wouldn't do it now, but people now seem so interested in the process [of writing fiction] that I have to constantly make it clear when I describe mine that I'm not being prescriptive. I'm not proselytizing.” PeopleWayShouldWritingSaidSeemsLastsProcessFictionNovelClearStudentsMinesDegreesSentencesWriting FictionProselytizing Author:John Irving
“I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.” CompanyDyingStudentsFormerFinding YourselfDevotedFormer Students Author:John Irving
“I wasn't a great student, C average. I was pretty shy, but I drank a lot of beer.” StudentsAverageBeerShyDrank Author:Kenny Chesney
“The Fed needs to adopt new tools, on its own and perhaps in cooperation with the other parts of the US government, to improve the economy from the bottom up. This includes increasing facilities for debt forgiveness for under-water mortgages and excessive student loans; increased credit facilities for small businesses and cooperatives; helping to underwrite mechanisms for creating affordable housing in cities; and more restrictive enforcement of financial regulatory rules to help rein in excessive banker risk and pay.” NeedsHelpingGovernmentWaterPayCitiesEconomyRiskStudentsCreatingToolsBottomFinancialCreditDebtFedsCooperationMechanismEnforcementSmall BusinessHousingLoanFacilityBankersMortgageAffordableReinsCooperativesStudent LoanAffordable Housing Author:Gerald Epstein
“It's just very hard to teach a class of students about what has happened in the Global Financial Crisis, how we ended up there and how we got to where we are today, without having some basic, non-trivial understanding of the financial sector, credit, and the banking system.” HardTodayUnderstandingClassTeachHappenedStudentsCrisisFinancialCreditBankingFinancial CrisisBanking System Author:Alan M. Taylor
“Areas with lots of college students/young people can be a minefield, so I tend to avoid them.” PeopleYoungStudentsCollegeAreasCollege StudentsMinefields Author:Christopher Poole
“Every new thing upsets people. We all know someone that has a teenage kid who sits in the room and the television is on, their iPod is on, they have the computer on and at least three other electronic devices going while they're doing their homework. It drives the dad nuts, but he can't complain because the kid's a 4.1 (GPA) student.” PeopleKnowsKidsThreeRoomsStudentsTelevisionDadComputerComplainingUpsetDevicesNutsNew ThingsTeenageHomeworkIpodsElectronic DevicesGpa Author:Paul Saffo
“The difference between our collective generation and your generation (differentiating the reporters from the students) is that we poured our souls out on paper that got easily yellowed and lost. The danger is that many of your friends (nodding at the students) are putting intimate ideas in cyberspace journals. So when today's 15-year-old is 40, some friend is going to drag out all of that idiotic stuff at their class reunion.” YearsIdeasSoulTodayLostStuffDifferencesClassGenerationsDangerStudentsPaperIntimateCollectivesDragReportersJournalReunionIdioticCyberspaceNoddingClass Reunion Author:Paul Saffo
“I was studying with Joe Allard, which was great, as a saxophone student. Being able to study with Joe Allard was an incredible experience.” AbleStudyStudentsIncrediblesSaxophone Author:Jon Gordon
“A tenor player named Bud Revels there at the time. A lot of really nice associations amongst the students. Garry Dial was a returning student. He actually got me on Red Rodney's band subbing a little bit. I gigged some with Red when I was 21 in 1988. So I had a lot of nice associations that came from [ Laguardia School of Arts]. But a lot of my education was going on in the clubs. Hearing music and sitting in.” LittlesArtSchoolBitsNicePlayerStudentsBandLittle BitSittingRedClubsHearingAssociationBudReally NiceTenorsHearing Music Author:Jon Gordon
“I had played some festivals with people and met and been around some good people, for sure. But what I say to my friends and students, anything like that with a grant or a competition, it involves a great deal of luck.” PeopleDealsStudentsMetsMy FriendsLuckCompetitionGrantsGood PeopleFestivals Author:Jon Gordon
“Alan [Ferber] is a great trombonist and composer. I'm thankful that I got some associations like that through peers and former students. That's kind of what it is.” KindStudentsFormerAssociationComposerPeersFormer Students Author:Jon Gordon
“Sometimes I say to my students, "We get to come and listen to our favorite recordings and try to learn from them and emulate that and hopefully we can inspire other people the way we've been inspired."” PeopleWayTryingSometimesStudentsInspireInspiredHopefullyEmulateInspire Others Author:Jon Gordon
“I do bring my teaching together with my writing. I make students write in class, and do the same prompts I give them. I'm always on the lookout for teaching poems - poems that inspire me and my students to write poems in response.” GivingWritingTogetherClassTeachingStudentsInspireResponsePrompts Author:Allison Joseph
“I think that relations between professors and grad students can be messy and not entirely boundable. Part of the problem is that those boundaries become eroticized. I don't think people are quite so managerial with their sexuality. By suggesting that sex can be successfully regulated, we're imposing stupidity on the issue.” PeopleThinkingProblemSexIssuesStudentsRelationStupiditySexualityBoundariesProfessorsMessyImposingSuggestingGrad Author:Laura Kipnis
“What has happened to Africa is very severe. We are talking about the collapse of this and the collapse of that, of good government, of the economy particularly. And this has hit education badly. The news you get from the universities in Nigeria is often appalling. I don't think a lot of it gets out. There is the obsession with cults and all kinds of dreadful things going on and all this is taking its toll and it is not surprising that quality of students and graduates who come out is not good. It will not be surprising if this shows in the quality of work they do.” IfsThinkingKindShowsGovernmentQualityTalkingEconomyHappenedStudentsNewsUniversityObsessionAll KindsGraduatesSurprisingCollapseSevereCultNigeriaTollsQuality Work Author:Chinua Achebe
“The humanities prepare students to be good citizens and help them understand a complicated, interlocking world. The humanities teach us critical thinking, how to analyze arguments, and how to imagine life from the point of view of someone unlike yourself.” ThinkingWorldHelpingHumanityViewsTeachImagineStudentsCitizensArgumentComplicatedCriticalPoint Of ViewBe GoodCritical ThinkingGood Citizen Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“I am relieved that, in my own teaching, I don't have to moderate between high stake teaching and education for the virtues. If I did, I would give students the tools to take the tests but not spend an inordinate amount of time on test prep nor on 'teaching to the test.' If the students, or their parents, want drill in testing, they'd have to go elsewhere. As a professional, my most important obligation is to teach the topic, skills, and methods in ways that I feel are intellectually legitimate.” IfsWayWantGivingFeelsImportantParentMy OwnTeachVirtueTeachingStudentsAmountSkillsToolsTestsMethodObligationStakesElsewhereTopicsTestingModeratesRelievedDrillsTeaching And EducationPreps Author:Howard Gardner
“In the United States, if you ask teachers, "Are there children whom we should call 'gifted?'", many if not most will say 'No.' That's the politically correct answer. But if you then ask the teacher to rank order students in terms of how well they paint or write or dance, they'll have little difficulty in doing so.” IfsShouldWritingWellsChildrenLittlesStatesOrderAsksTermAnswersUnitedUnited StatesTeacherStudentsDifficultyPaintGiftedPolitically Correct Author:Howard Gardner
“I always tell my students the same thing. And that's to live life, and to read very voraciously without any definite program. To travel, to meet people, to talk to people, to listen very carefully, and not interrupt, but listen to their own grandparents speak of their families.” PeopleSpeakStudentsProgramLive LifeDefiniteGrandparent Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“I'm a student of media and I've always been one. I'm fascinated by the way we make the world around us based on pictures and how can we improve our perception of this picture world.” WorldWayMediaStudentsPerceptionFascinated Author:Vik Muniz
“It's my experience that people write better when they feel at ease and free to experiment, rather than being in a competitive, hypercritical atmosphere. There are always a few students who want me to be tough or harsh, but it's really not my style.” PeopleWantFeelsWritingStyleStudentsToughExperimentsAtmosphereEaseWant MeHarsh Author:Elaine Equi
“Sometimes you get lit students that know a lot about the canon but virtually nothing about contemporary poetry and vice versa. I like to mix things up.” KnowsSometimesStudentsVicesContemporaryLitVice VersaCanon Author:Elaine Equi
“As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people, and my grandfather's death. During my long period of observation, I felt that something like poems were filling up my body. They were in some kind of state and condition that made them difficult to render into words. As a university student, I tried hard to write them in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time.” PeopleThinkingWorldWritingKindLongMadeHardStatesBodyKidsFeltDifficultSunCrazyConditionsObjectsStudentsWindPeriodsWindowSeasonsSickUniversityObservationGrandfatherFillingMy GrandfatherKoreanCrazy PeopleFilling UpUniversity StudentsSick Kids Author:Kim Hyesoon
“When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also writing the playwright. You're developing yourself as a persona, as a public persona. It's going to be partly exposed through the writing itself and partly created by all the paraphernalia that attaches itself to writing. But you aren't simply an invisible being or your own private being at work. You're kind of a public figure, as well.” WritingWellsKindPlayUsedTeachFiguresStudentsInvisibleDevelopingExposedPlaywrightPersonaPublic FiguresPlaywriting Author:Tony Kushner
“I hadn't had any course work in ceramics. I had no courses in art education but I wasn't going to let this chance to have a job pass me by. I went out and learned and I stayed one step ahead of the students by reading and I got to be pretty proficient at throwing on the wheel and making my own glazes, ordering the chemicals and having the students go out and dig and process their clay, and doing things that they weren't teaching at Howard University. So Talladega College opened up my whole sensibility about experimental teaching.” ArtWholeJobsCoursesReadingProcessChanceMy OwnStepsTeachingStudentsCollegeUniversityWheelsChemicalsThrowingSensibilityClayArt EducationCeramics Author:David C. Driskell
“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
“My students used to say, one such as Mary O'Neal, that I identified the students by their boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. That was the way I knew them and keep up with them. Mary was the girlfriend of Stokely Carmichael. She later became a fine painter of distinction and taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, and later became chairman of the Department of Art at Berkeley.” WayArtUsedStudentsTaughtFinePainterGirlfriendDepartmentDistinctionMarySan FranciscoChairmanInstituteBerkeley Author:David C. Driskell
“When students are first at the Kerouac School we harp on Gertrude Stein's very basic poetic insistence that words are things . Not to invalidate your experience or all the great feelings you have, I tell them. Although poetry may be good for you, it's not therapy. You're making something with words which are visceral, muscular, active, not just markers of how you feel. And we have classes studying William Blake, Ezra Pound, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Stein.” FeelsFirstsMayFeelingsSchoolClassStudyStudentsActiveBe GoodTherapyPoundsPoeticHow You FeelInsistenceHarpsVisceralBlakeMarkersGreat FeelingsDuncanGertrude Author:Anne Waldman
“As a grad student and later as a writer, I have found it hard to sustain the pure, almost erotic love of reading I had as a kid - you know, where you climb in bed and read for hours and hours, and the book itself is this charged magical object. Later, when writing becomes your job, it's tied up with ego and all kinds of worry, and it's not always easy to get to that state of pure escape.” WritingKindBookKidsReadingEasyHoursWorryStudentsEgoAll KindsLove Of ReadingTied Up Author:Elif Batuman
“I think confidence is something you build gradually, with experience. I've always felt that maybe one of the reasons that I did well as a student and made such good grades was because I lacked confidence. I never felt that I was prepared to take an examination, and I had to study a little bit extra.” ThinkingReasonStudyStudentsExtrasGood Grades Author:Denton Cooley
“One demonstrable effect this type of work can have is in its viral promulgation. Take Kathy Acker for example: her work exists mainly through academic channels. Students are exposed to her novels, and some read her, then, on their own, but some also go to grad school: teach her, write about her, keep her going.” WritingSchoolTeachNovelStudentsAcademic Author:Davis Schneiderman
“I teach a graduate seminar called "Theorizing Improvisation" that is pretty interdisciplinary, but really makes students deal with black studies seriously. A lot of authors of color, a lot of women of color - those become central to the intellectual trajectory. It considers music, but it also considers areas of thought that might seem unrelated to music. That's partly because we're expanding the notion of what music is beyond objects, beyond scores, beyond things.” BlackTeachStudyStudentsMusic IsIntellectualGraduatesImprovisation Author:Vijay Iyer
“I had in effect been thrown out of graduate school because I was a lousy graduate student, and I had to find a job, and I took the first job that came along. It happened to be a management trainee job in a life insurance company, and I just stayed. It was always, mainly, the idea was that I would support myself as a writer, and I knew I would have to have some sort of work, and it didn't make a whole lot of difference to me what it was. I mean, I could have been a paper hanger or something for that matter.” MeanSchoolSupportStudentsManagementGraduatesGraduate SchoolInsurance Companies Author:Ted Kooser
“I try to be realistic with students. And say that there's a good chance that they're not going to get a creative writing teaching job, that there aren't enough jobs to go around and the university faculties are cutting back on staff and that they may have to get some other kind of work. None of them wants to hear that, but it is true and I think I'm a good example for them of somebody who took the other route.” ThinkingWritingTryingKindEnoughChanceCreativeCuttingTeachingStudentsRealisticCreative Writing Author:Ted Kooser
“My mother Vivian Ayers always instilled within her children that our opinions, our thoughts and our ideas about what was possible was important. My mother made me feel that I was important as a thinker at four-years-old. And I instill that within my students everyday.” ChildrenImportantMotherOpinionStudentsEverydayThinker Author:Debbie Allen
“I absolutely think that women told that writing about themselves is somehow not worthy enough for a public audience all the time. I hear it so often from my students and friends. As if it doesn't take rigorous craft, and intellectual acuity to write a slammin' book of any kind. But perhaps, especially, about the body.” ThinkingWritingKindBookEnoughAudienceStudentsIntellectualWorthyNot Worthy Author:Melissa Febos
“With my students I give them lots and lots of guided writing. Part of it is as simple as writing a lot but not toward anything. The mind floats. Then I help them see where the language has heat. If we do this a lot in class, students eventually relax into this writing practice and enjoy it. Even just that - writing pleasure without the anxiety of "audience" or "grade" or "success" - is a kind of impetus toward the unfamiliar.” GivingWritingMindKindHelpingLanguageEnjoySimplePleasureAudienceStudentsAnxietyRelax Author:Dawn Lundy Martin
“So we are in for years of debt deflation. That means that people have to pay so much debt service for mortgages, credit cards, student loans, bank loans and other obligations that they have less to spend on goods and services. So markets shrink. New investment and employment fall off, and the economy is falls into a downward spiral.” PeopleMeanFallEconomyStudentsInvestmentObligationLoanMortgageCredit CardStudent Loan Author:Michael Hudson
“The aim of academic trade theory is to tell students, "Look at the model, not at how nations actually develop." So of all the branches of economic theory, trade theory is the most wrongheaded.” EconomicStudentsAimTradeAcademic Author:Michael Hudson
“The current U.S. and Eurozone depression isn't because of China. It's because of domestic debt deflation. Commodity prices and consumer spending are falling, mainly because consumers have to pay most of their wages to the FIRE sector for rent or mortgage payments, student loans, bank and credit card debt, plus over 15 percent FICA wage withholding for Social Security and Medicare actually, to enable the government to cut taxes on the higher income brackets, as well income and sales taxes.” FallCuttingSecurityStudentsTaxesCommodityLoanMortgageCredit CardMedicareStudent Loan Author:Michael Hudson
“Computers get better, faster than anything else ever. A child's PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996. But our brains are wired for a linear world. As a result, exponential trends take us by surprise. I used to teach my students that there are some things, you know, computers just aren't good at like driving a car through traffic.” WorldTodayPowerfulBrainTeachMilitaryCarStudentsComputerSurpriseDrivingGet Better Author:Erik Brynjolfsson
“People look at the future and see a black hole. They look at climate change and see an ecological crisis. They look at their leaders corrupted by money and see a political crisis. They wonder if they'll ever be able to pay off their student loan or own a house. Given this ecological, political and financial crisis, what they want is a different future. Their fundamental demand is a different regime to provide that future.” PeopleDifferentPoliticalHouseBlackLeaderWonderStudentsCrisisClimate ChangeFinancialLoanEcologicalFinancial CrisisBlack HoleStudent Loan Author:Kalle Lasn