“I was an incredibly devoted student, and I would often wake up at 4 or 5 in the morning to study. But even so, there were still people who thought that a girl like me with a background like mine wasn't really "college material."” PeopleGirlMorningStudyStudentsCollegeWake Up Author:Michelle Obama
“People don't realize that when Iranians marched against the shah, their goal was not to have a religious government take over. Everybody marched against the shah. There were communists and feminists and student groups. It's very much like what's going on in the U.S. now, with people following Trump. It's not that they want Trump. They want a radical change, is really what people are saying. With the shah, people were just so sick of the corruption they said just get rid of him.” PeopleGoalRealizingReligiousStudentsSickFeministCorruptionRadicalCommunistSo Sick Author:Firoozeh Dumas
“I found great value in teaching students from the outset of their studies how to draw very realistically. Otherwise, you're starting deep into the alphabet instead of having started at the start. If you discard essential things like drawing, design, color and so on at the beginning, then you're just sort of floating out in space, without any basis to work from.” ValuesStudyTeachingDesignStudents Author:David Small
“If you're always in the company of people who agree with you, you're going to think of people who don't agree with you as venal or stupid. I constantly tell my students that if they're in the company of people who always say "amen" to what you say, find other company. And that is the source of illiberalism, when you are unable to listen to someone who thinks differently. That's when democracies are in trouble.” PeopleThinkingDemocracyTroubleStupidStudentsAgree Author:Condoleezza Rice
“What surprised me was the angst at our democracy. And I understand it - I teach at a university and feel it in my students - but what I've tried to say to people is that we have amazing institutions, but nobody ever said we were perfect. We struggled before and we're struggling now, and we're going to struggle every day. We're a work in progress. That's why the American experience is so important for us to remember, and for us to be a beacon for others to enjoy those same rights.” PeopleImportantRememberEnjoyPerfectTeachStruggleDemocracyProgressStudentsAngstWork In Progress Author:Condoleezza Rice
“Suppose a student of mine writes in her exam that "morality is completely relative to culture, so nothing is absolutely right or wrong. Because of that, it is absolutely wrong to be culturally intolerant". This student, if she believes what she writes, believes a contradiction. She ought not to believe the contradiction - it's a basic epistemic norm. This is true even if she can't avoid believing it - no amount of studying will show her the light.” WritingBelieveCultureStudyStudentsMoralityContradictionRelativeNormExam Author:Nomy Arpaly
“My formal education as an extension to my college degree in journalism was the time that I spent working with the student newspaper. I would argue that my greatest education occurred by working for the student newspaper. It wasn't necessarily the classroom work that made my formal education special. It was the idea that I had the opportunity to practice it before I went into the real world.” WorldRealOpportunitySpecialStudentsCollegeArguingJournalismReal WorldClassroomCollege Degree Author:Don Yaeger
“Helmut Walcha was a gifted organist, improviser, and composer! He would play Evensong every week at his church for free, the Dreikönigskirche in Frankfurt, where the audience would consist of only six or so of us students. When he would give a public recital that had a hefty ticket price, the church was packed.” GivingChurchAudienceWeekStudentsComposer Author:Barbara Harbach
“I am a morning person and start work, whether composing, rehearsing, preparing syllabi/tests, or proofing an article or manuscript, early in the morning before the flood of e-mails, phone calls and disturbances, usually by my four cats! I like to do projects that I can become passionate about - women in the arts and mentoring students. Like all of us, if we enjoy what we are doing, it's not work, and we might even get paid for it!” ArtEnjoyMorningStudentsCatPassionateFloodMentoring Author:Barbara Harbach
“In some ways, it is difficult for contemporary composers to find an audience. Both men and women would love a culture that embraced and hungered for new music, as they did in the Classical period. I tell my students that they should just keep writing, write what pleases you, and don't worry about what people or critics may think about your music.” PeopleThinkingMenWritingCultureDifficultWorryAudienceStudentsMen And WomenCriticsComposer Author:Barbara Harbach
“College has become unaffordable for most of the kids who attend, and, while most of the population won't ever graduate from college, our high schools don't prepare students for that reality by providing vocational and occupational training.” RealityKidsSchoolStudentsCollegeTrainingHigh SchoolGraduates Author:James Stone
“I'm a student of history and know that civilizations get lost - they are born and die - and so I recognize the tender mortality of our civilization. I'm not saying I'm separate from the despair of that, but I'm not controlled by the despair of that.” StudentsDespairMortality Author:Gangaji
“I report when science clashes with the Bible story and when it reinforces it. Then I let the readers chew on it. As followers of Jesus and students of the Bible, what we're looking for is the truth. We find it by grappling with the facts. And when the truth remains a mystery that our facts can't solve, we live with it. We hold loosely to our waffling knowledge and tightly to Jesus.” JesusMysteryStudentsClash Author:Stephen M. Miller
“I like to consider myself a student of hip hop. There's a certain level of certification and wit and craftsmanship that comes with rapping. As rap progresses - it's a young genre - it's becoming way more mainstream, crossing over to different lanes. I feel like it's losing its essence in a way, because it's getting commercialised. I want to keep it fresh and keep it progressive, but I also want to respect the foundation of what rap is about.” DifferentProgressStudentsLosingHip HopRapWitProgressiveCraftsmanship Author:Cakes da killa
“We're going right down the toilet, and it's a made-in-China toilet. I teach MBAs. And I noticed, starting a few years after China joined the World Trade Organization, that a lot of my students were no longer employed. They were still coming to get their MBA, but they'd lost their jobs.” WorldTeachStudentsTrade Author:Peter Navarro
“It's just like when Trump made his speech, his commencement speech at Liberty University, I saw something that I've never seen. ABC News was there, and they're running around asking the parents of students at Liberty University what about Donald Trump they don't like. Are you upset that Trump is here? Do you ever remember any such reporting at an Barack Obama or Michelle Obama commencement? Of course not. And Trump was loved and adored at this thing, and he had some great things to say.” RunningRememberParentLibertyStudentsGreat ThingsBarackUpsetCommencementCommencement Speech Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When we talk about something like student loans, what we should be talking about is the fact that every American wants their kids to do better than we have done. If we can get that, the other thing we'd really like is for our kids to be able to come home and raise their kids in the community where we raised them. What unites all of us, no matter where you live in the country, is we want our family to be safe, we want the next generation in our family to be more successful than us, and we would like our family to be close together.” CountryDoneHomeKidsTogetherCommunitySuccessfulStudentsOur FamilyComing HomeLoanNext GenerationStudent Loan Author:Jason Kander
“The secret is to find what you love to do.I mean, I tell the students look for the job that you would take if you didn't need a job. I mean, it's that simple. And I was lucky enough to find it very early in life. And then the second thing is to have people around you that make feel good every day, and make you a better person than you otherwise would be.” PeopleMeanEnoughSimpleSecretStudentsLuckyFeel GoodBetter Person Author:Warren Buffett
“We need more concept-development and active involvement, less tuning forks, pulleys, and friction formulas - students know they'll never use those. They need more study of outer space and DNA. They need more exciting teaching, more fair-minded encouragement, more career guidance, more mentorship. Both students and teachers need more feedback. It would help if we stopped protecting bad teachers - It's very difficult to get rid of even sexual perverts let alone just bad teachers.” HelpingDifficultStudyTeacherTeachingStudentsExcitingEncouragementGuidanceFeedbackInvolvementOuter Space Author:Michio Kaku
“We need an enduring, robust theory of education. Now, it seems education careens from one fad to another and often back again. I think that with better education and students willing to put in the 10,000-hours to become expert, we could develop better science professionals, even theoretical physicists.” ThinkingStudentsEndurePhysicistTheoretical Author:Michio Kaku
“Some of my students have had really bad experiences with religion. They moved away from talking to God. For a lot of people, angels are a gentle route back to the Creator.” PeopleStudentsAngelMovedGentle Author:Doreen Virtue
“True renunciation can be attained by anyone - whether a millionaire, parent, student, politician, farmer or engineer. It's not what you have or don't have; it's your state of consciousness. In essence, it means that true peace that comes from true renunciation arrives when we understand that nothing is mine. Whatever intelligence I have, whatever abilities I have, whatever family members I have, whatever wealth or property I have, is the sacred property of God or the Divine.” MeanParentWealthAbilityConsciousnessStudentsDivinePoliticianPropertyFarmersMillionaireRenunciation Author:Radhanath Swami
“Writing fiction is a resolutely solitary pastime, and I love being with people, so the public side of being an author is, to me, the reward for all the private time invested. And I love teaching to a fault; I have a hard time not giving away a lot of my own writing energy to my students.” PeopleGivingWritingEnergyLove IsTeachingStudentsHard TimesSolitary Author:Julia Glass
“I fear that the impact of university censorship and university denial of due process will be to mis-educate a generation of students away from core values of civil liberties and constitutional safeguards. Students who have been led to believe by university administrators and faculty that censorship and denial of due process are acceptable norms will be more susceptible to accepting those norms in their post-university lives. That would be a tragedy for America.” BelieveValuesLibertyAcceptingStudentsTragedyDenialCensorshipNormCivil LibertiesCore ValuesDue Process Author:Alan Dershowitz
“I'd require that every university, public or private, be governed by the constitutional standards regarding freedom of expression and due process. There is no reason for treating adult college students any differently in the university setting than in the outside world.” WorldReasonStudentsCollegeFreedom Of ExpressionCollege StudentsDue Process Author:Alan Dershowitz
“Why should we tie everyone's future to athletic success? I think organic farm has saved our school. It saved it because it changed the narrative of the institution. We're the first urban work college in the country. And so our students learn what it means to be effective and to have job skills and work skills.” ThinkingMeanCountrySchoolChangedStudentsCollegeUrbanAthletic Author:Michael Sorrell
“Eighty-three percent of our students are Pell Grant-eligible, which means, by and large, that their families have a dysfunctional relationship with wealth and with work. So if you have never been in an environment where you have come to understand the expectations of a career, because all you have ever seen is people be underemployed or unemployed, then how are you going to learn that? Our students are getting two forms of education. They're getting a rigorous liberal arts training, and they're also getting real world work experience.” PeopleWorldMeanArtRealWealthEnvironmentStudentsTrainingExpectationsReal WorldLiberal Arts Author:Michael Sorrell
“Washington flourished but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered, but the jobs left Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families, but for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists. An education system flushed with cash but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge. We've defended other nation's borders while refusing to defend our own.” PeopleChildrenDifferentRealitySchoolBeautifulWealthShareStudentsPoliticianNeighborhoodEducation SystemYoung And Beautiful Author:Donald Trump
“My basic thought about actors, and I would say this to my students - I love to teach, but I haven't in awhile because I've been fortunate enough to be working - that, "If this is the work you love, there is work for you. That's how the world works. That's the attitude you have to go in there with. You just have to know that it's coming."” WorldEnoughAttitudeTeachStudents Author:Ann Dowd
“I have all my tricks to unplugging. Sometimes I just close my eyes and I breathe a couple of times, even if I'm in the middle of a conversation. It centers me. Dancing also helps me to unplug, so does writing music. I really enjoy going to Central Park and Upstate New York, when I really want to unplug from the city. Going to the library is great, too. There's just a nice equality about libraries, there's everyone from kids to senior citizens to students, it's a nice environment. I grab whatever book I feel attracted to and then I just sit there and read it for a little while.” WritingBookSometimesHelpingEyeKidsEnjoyEnvironmentNiceStudentsCoupleDancingLibraryBreatheHelp MeSeniorSenior Citizen Author:Kissey
“Kids that are allegedly better students are in an elitist class in first and second grade and then they go to their high schools, they go to their universities and the normal dumb shits like me are down at the bottom. These people go to elitist schools and they replicate their elitist thoughts in the corporations.” PeopleKidsSchoolStudentsHigh SchoolBottomDumbElitist Author:Paul Orfalea
“I grew up during the Communist time. When I was a student and I especially wanted to play rock, that was a problem for all rock musicians in the Soviet Union. My friends liked it, but all the Communist officials, bureaucrats, teachers, didn't like this. There was very powerful propaganda against capitalism and the Western ideology. Everything that was connected to the West - rock music, jeans, long hair, loud music - everything was not allowed. But luckily that's now in the past. I hope.” LongProblemPastPowerfulTeacherStudentsMusicianCapitalismWesternIdeologyPropagandaCommunistSovietSoviet UnionVery PowerfulRock MusicLong Hair Author:Albert Kuvezin
“I was interested in all kinds of things, whether it be Avatar, Mad Men, Troy, 300, Battlestar Gallactica, or the poems of Horace and Sappho. I always joke about this to my students, who can't quite wrap their mind around the fact that you can have a Ph.D in classics, but not do that full time. I never wanted to write anything with footnotes for the rest of my life. I always think of what I do as the kind of conversation you'd have with somebody, like a good friend, when you've gone and seen a movie together, and you come home and you start talking about it.” ThinkingMenWritingMindKindHomeTogetherStudentsJokesMadAll KindsComing HomeGood FriendMad Men Author:Daniel Mendelsohn
“When I was a student, I was dressed like a modern girl and I wore long shorts. That is part of the past. There is fear in the streets. You cannot go out in the streets. You are looked at as if you come from another age. If there are any militias on your street, they will tell you to go back home and dress decently. They could beat you up or punish you worse than that. Some of us who have grown up in Baghdad are used to wearing what we please and walking where we please.” LongHomeAgePastGirlModernStudentsWalking Author:Yanar Mohammed
“When I teach criticism, the first thing I say, and this sometimes pisses off younger - I mean, students, is that, opinions are the least part of criticism. We've all had the experience of going with a friend to a movie or a concert and you leave the theater and one of you loved it and one of you hated it, and that doesn't mean that one of you is an idiot. That's the way things work.” MeanSometimesOpinionTeachStudentsCriticismIdiotHated Author:Gary Giddins
“So much of our politics is stuck in patterns of response that aren't working. When student performance is declining in schools, we implement more controls, more testing, more "accountability," more rigor. We apply even more of those things, from security systems to control of students' behavior through pharmaceutical drugs. That's a situation in which doing is only making things worse. You may have to go through a phase of de-programming, letting go of old habits, coming to stillness, before you can even see what the pattern of action was, and what alternatives there might be.” ActionSchoolSituationSecurityStudentsHabitDrugLetting GoBehaviorResponseStuckAccountabilityStillnessPharmaceutical Author:Charles Eisenstein
“I hated being stuck at home doing the student thing. I always wanted to work. And there's nothing wrong with it. So you can take what you can get. And, you know, this, 'Well, that's beneath me. I have a degree.' Put it aside for a while because reality is what it is. There are a lot of people having to do a lot of things that they think are beneath them right now because McDonald's is not open to make sure you don't starve. That's your job. Your responsibility to make sure you don't starve and your kids don't starve and all the rest of it.” PeopleThinkingHomeRealityKidsResponsibilityStudentsStuckHated Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The country doesn't owe you anything because you're an American or especially because you have a college degree. Now, if you think... If you are a college student and you've got a degree and you're out there and you can't find a job and if you think - if you agree with Obama that the Bush tax cuts ought to sunset - $700 billion ought to be taken out of the private sector and sent to Obama, then you deserve to be out of work for the rest of your life because that $700 billion taken out of the private sector could be used to grow businesses and hire people.” PeopleThinkingCountryTakenCuttingStudentsCollegeTaxesDeserveAgreeSunsetCollege StudentsCollege Degree Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The film's title You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train. comes from something I used to say in teaching my students "This is not going to be a neutral class." The world is already moving in certain directions and wars are going on and children are going hungry. Terrible things are happening. And so to be neutral in a situation like this is to collaborate with whatever is going on. And I don't want to collaborate with the world as it is. I want to intrude myself. I want to participate in changing the direction of things. So that's the origin of the title.” WorldChildrenWarMovingSituationTeachingStudentsTerribleTrainHungry Author:Howard Zinn
“As long as I can remember, I've wanted to be a teacher, but a turning point for me was attending HBS as an MBA student. What I experienced was the power of the case method - that is, how much students can learn, not by listening to lectures, but by engaging in an intense discussion. This can be an exciting way to learn and a powerful one, because it really gets all the synapses to connect.” LongRememberPowerfulTeacherStudentsListeningExcitingIntenseDiscussion Author:Joseph Badaracco
“I would describe myself as a writer and a student of media. If there's a central idea in media theory, it's to take media as form. It might grow out of philosophical aesthetics or the study of literature and visual art, but the various strands of media theory converge in treating all of those as subsets of the study of media as form.” ArtLiteratureStudyStudentsPhilosophicalVariousVisual Art Author:McKenzie Wark
“Master's degree in journalism served several purposes. It helped me to break down and understand scripts. And the discipline of getting my master's gave me a certain amount of confidence. I don't think college is the only path, but I enjoyed it and it worked out very well for me. I had some good friends with whom I could get a little crazy, but still be responsible. It was the perfect bridge from living at home to independence. I also love learning. I might have been a professional student and earned a couple of doctorates, if I didn't have to pay bills.” ThinkingHomePurposePerfectBreakPathCrazyStudentsCollegeCoupleDisciplineResponsibleIndependenceJournalismGood FriendBreaking DownBeing Responsible Author:Regina Hall
“I am not going to say that people who enter the military are doing anything wrong. As I often jokingly tell my students, "Many of my best of friends are in the military!" But it's true. Perhaps not in the Aristotelian sense of the word "friendship" but on so many other levels that matter, we are truly friends.” PeopleMilitaryStudents Author:Tripp York
“If you're considering going into student debt, I encourage you to seek the Lord's will through the reading and study of His Word, prayer, and the wise counsel of others before you make the decision to take out a loan.” ReadingPrayerDecisionStudyWiseStudentsLoan Author:Randy Alcorn
“I like being connected to young people, or younger people who are trying to figure out the language of film, bringing theorists from the dawn of the art in the 20th century. There is a way you find a synthesis. You read texts by the Soviets who are discussing montage, and you have students figuring out how to put scenes together and tell stories visually. The theory becomes relevant in daily practice. It's free labor, which is pretty cool too. I think we all learn from each other and benefit from the collaborations.” PeopleThinkingTryingArtTogetherFilmLanguageStudentsSceneLaborCollaborationRelevant20th Century Author:Matthew Porterfield
“When John Travolta had the opportunity to do The Boy In The Plastic Bubble, he brought me and a couple other people from the movie to just be the students and have some parts, because he wanted to help us out. I thought that was really sweet.” PeopleHelpingOpportunityBoysStudentsSweetCoupleBubbles Author:P. J. Soles
“I've always loved teaching acting. I think it helps me to kind of get back to basics. It's like a refresher course for me as well, so in a sense, I'm hopefully learning as much as my students are - or at least discovering or re-discovering as much as they are. I find that when I teach, I'm reminded of my own sort of failings. I'm reminded of where I sometimes keep going wrong.” ThinkingKindSometimesHelpingActingTeachFailingTeachingStudentsHopefullyHelp MeKeep Going Author:Alfred Molina
“This is a good thing to say to film students. If there's a story point that you don't feel right about, that there's a question you have - "Does it really make sense?" Or, "Is that plausible? Is it implausible? Is it set up?" Or whatever. Go at it. Don't let it go. If there's a question in your mind, you're probably right. You probably do need to work on it and think about it more.” ThinkingMindFilmStudentsGood ThingsMake SenseLet It Go Author:Annette Bening
“The Bible is so deep! As the 6th-century church father Gregory put it: "Scripture is like a river...shallow enough...for the lamb to go wading, but deep enough...for the elephant to swim." It's humbling to be involved in projects that make the riches of the Bible accessible to Bible teachers and students.” EnoughFatherChurchTeacherStudentsScriptureSwimShallowHumbling Author:Martin Manser
“I did my last year of high school as an exchange student. I lived south of the Atlanta, in a quite strange place - real southern. I formed my first band that year and we just started playing my songs live. It was way in for me to get to know people and to really feel at home there - through music.” PeopleRealHomeSchoolSongStudentsStrangeHigh SchoolSouthern Author:Anna Ternheim