“A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself.” WritingMindWholeAsksPiecesStudentsEmergenciesSequence Author:William Stafford
“I had a student ask me, "Could the savior you believe in save Osama bin Laden?" Of course, we know the blood of Jesus Christ can save him, and then he must be executed.” KnowsBelieveHumorCoursesAsksJesusChristReligiousBloodStudentsJesus ChristPositive AtheismAsk MeSaviorBin LadenOsama Bin LadenBlood Of Jesus Author:Jerry Falwell
“Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.” NeedsGivingAbleSchoolAsksIndividualStrongParentDecisionTeacherDesignStudentsProgramPartnershipPermissionBureaucracyFlexibilityPublic SchoolCharterSchool Teachers Author:Gary Larson
“A real liberated teacher never asks for a commitment from a student. That's absurd, a person wants to be there and they want to learn everything they can.” WantPersonsRealAsksTeacherStudentsCommitmentAbsurdEnlightenedLiberated Author:Frederick Lenz
“The most horrible question students ask: 'How do you paint copper?' 'How do you paint flesh or glass?' You paint everything the same way: Right color, right value, in right spot. There are no prescriptions.” WayValuesAsksStudentsColorPaintGlassesFleshHorribleSpotsPrescriptionsCopper Author:Sergei Bongart
“What I want to know from students, and I ask them right away, is, 'What do you want? I don't care what it is. I want to help you get it.” KnowsWantHelpingCareDesireAsksStudentsDon't CareI Don't Care Author:Peter Schjeldahl
“Being a journalist, I never feel bad talking to journalism students because it’s a grand, grand caper. You get to leave, go talk to strangers, ask them anything, come back, type up their stories, edit the tape. That’s not gonna retire your loans as quickly as it should, and it’s not going to turn you into a person who’s worried about what kind of car they should buy, but that’s kind of as it should be. I mean, it beats working.” FeelsShouldKindMeanPersonsStoriesTurnsAsksTalkingCarStudentsTypeBeatsStrangerJournalismWorriedJournalistRetiringTapeLoanEditsCapers Author:David
“One more item for the delusional Miss Grundys still obtusely citing Reagan as their model of “niceness”: As governor of California, Reagan gave student protesters at Berkeley the finger. Remember that next time you ask yourself: “What would Reagan do?” People who are afraid of ideas whitewash Reagan like they whitewash Jesus. Sorry to break it to you, but the Reagan era did not consist of eight years of Reagan joking about his naps.” PeopleYearsStillsIdeasRememberNextAsksJesusBreakMissingStudentsModelsFingersSorryEightErasCaliforniaGovernorsNext TimeItemsNapsDelusionalCitingBerkeleyNiceness Author:Ann Coulter
“This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.” ThinkingHeartAsksUnderstandingGrowthTeacherStudentsDialogueGood Education Author:William Glasser
“In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.” BookHelpingSchoolAsksQualityTeacherTeachingStudentsTestsNotesForbidden Author:William Glasser
“Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives and give them nearly no support in doing so? Support like, say, spending a day apiece watching twenty different jobs and then another week at their top three choices, with salary charts and projections and probabilities of graduating that subject given their test scores? The more so considering this is a central allocation question for the entire economy?” WantGivingDifferentSchoolJobsChoicesThreeAsksGivenSupportEconomyWeekSubjectsStudentsHigh SchoolTestsTwentiesSpendingRidiculousScoreGraduatesConsideringProbabilitySalaryProjectionDifferent JobsAllocationHigh School StudentsTest Scores Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively. They need to ask themselves, What does the ideal room look like? Is there music? Is there silence? Is there chaos outside or is there serenity outside? What do I need in order to release my imagination?” KnowsNeedsLooksDoeImportantOrderAsksImaginationRoomsSilenceStudentsMusic IsIdealsImportant ThingsChaosReleaseSerenitySilence IsMy Imagination Author:Toni Morrison
“If you ask who are the customers of education, the customers of education are the society at large, the employers who hire people, things like that. But ultimately I think the customers are the parents. Not even the students but the parents. The problem that we have in this country is that the customers went away. The customers stopped paying attention to their schools, for the most part.” PeopleIfsThinkingCountryProblemSchoolAsksParentAttentionStudentsCustomersPay AttentionEmployers Author:Steve Jobs
“Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.” LittlesAsksToo MuchMiddleStudentsIntellectualBottomEducationalWrong ThingsRomanticism Author:Charles A. Murray
“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.” TryingWellsPersonsMadeAsksIndividualForceStudentsCreaturesAskingObsessedAlways Trying Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.” IfsArtReasonAsksSpeakStudents Author:Joe Murray
“A student might ask, how long will it take to learn guitar..., the answer is, as long as you live - that short.” LongMightAsksAnswersStudentsGuitar Author:Philip Toshio Sudo
“When students scoff at the idea of a magical relation between a picture and what it represents, ask them to take a photograph of their mother and cut out the eyes.” IdeasEyeMotherAsksCuttingStudentsRelationPhotograph Book:What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images Source: What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images
“I always tell students that the first question to ask about any historical action is this: who makes money out of the deal?” FirstsActionAsksDealsStudentsHistoricalMaking Money Author:Carl R Trueman
“My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition. A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.” GivingSometimesEnoughAsksFunSimpleToo MuchStudentsDefinitionsDamnFundamentalist Author:Bart D. Ehrman
“I often suggest that my students ask themselves the simple question: Do I know how to live? Do I know how to eat? How much to sleep? How to take care of my body? How to relate to other people? ... Life is the real teacher, and the curriculum is all set up. The question is: are there any students?” PeopleKnowsRealBodyCareLife IsAsksSleepSimpleKnow HowTeacherStudentsTake CareRelateCurriculum Author:Larry Rosenberg
“There were the events of 1968 when young people began to ask their parents, what did you do in the war? And since the middle- or late-'70s, the French have been absolutely obsessed with the Vichy regime. They have an institute of contemporary history that turns out first-rate scholarly work. Their textbooks are accurate. Whether the students actually read them is another matter.” PeopleFirstsHas BeensWarMatterYoungTurnsAsksParentMiddleEventsStudentsLateRateContemporaryObsessedRegimesAccurateInstituteTextbooksScholarly Author:Robert O. Paxton
“I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I came to Europe I came to France and I had very little money, and I had to live low and stayed in a bohemian section of Paris with a lot of other students, who were from medical school, science school and art school. We all lived in a kind of communal way and I was challenged politically, because I didn't have a clue and they would ask me questions about the Algerian War, which was very big in France in the late '50s.” WayKindLittlesArtBookWarBigsSchoolReadingAsksStudentsLateLowsEuropeMedicalFranceAsk MeParisReading BooksSectionsClueColonyArt SchoolBohemianLittle MoneyMedical School Author:Robert Redford
“The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.” HappensAsksClassTeachingStudents Author:Garry Winogrand
“Now and then I'll get a student who asks a question that puts me up against the wall and maybe by the end of the semester I can begin to deal with the question.” I CanEndsAsksDealsStudentsWallNow And ThenSemester Author:Garry Winogrand
“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
“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
“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
“At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year - 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me. These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsMomentsGovernmentYoungAsksCreativeStreetsStudentsReturnFolksChinaEducatedAsk MeIronicKnow Me Author:Ai Weiwei
“I've had some parents ask me to do private birthday parties for their students, which I can't do, but it's an honor that they even ask. I love the feedback I get from parents on my music, it's so awesome.” I CanAsksParentPartyStudentsHonorAsk MeFeedbackBirthday Party Author:Raheem Jarbo
“Any good teacher should become acquainted with relevant technologies. But the technologies should not dictate an education goal. Rather, the teacher (or parent or student or policy maker) should ask: can technology help to achieve this goal, and which technologies are most likely to be helpful?” ShouldHelpingAsksParentGoalTechnologyTeacherAchievePolicyStudentsHelpfulMakersRelevantGood TeacherPolicy Makers Author:Howard Gardner
“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
“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