“I told my students the other day in class, which is about the spirituality and creativity as much as it is about music. I said, 'If you're walking down the street and you see a baby carriage, and there's a baby in the carriage; you look down and your eyes meet the eyes of the baby. The baby looks at you: That's the kind of moment you're in when you're playing.” IfsLooksKindSaidMomentsEyeSpiritualityClassCreativityStreetsStudentsBabyWalkingDown AndCarriages Author:Charlie Haden
“The greatest development after age 21 was shown by Steinitz, who increased his rating by more than a full class interval. Steinitz was the deep student and fierce competitor to the end of his career.” EndsAgeClassCareersStudentsDevelopmentFierceCompetitorsRatingIntervals Author:Arpad Elo
“I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent.” HardBigsSchoolBlackClassStudentsUniversityAbsentIllinois Author:Godfrey
“Although the only way that I'm well known at Illinois State is that I am the "grammar Nazi." And so any student whose deployment of a semi-colon is not absolutely Mozart-esque knows that they're going to get a C in my class, and so my classes tend to have like four students in them. It's really a lot of fun.” KnowsWayWellsStatesFunKnownClassFourStudentsNaziWell KnownGrammarDeploymentIllinois Author:David Foster Wallace
“My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the class progresses.” WritingFirstsClassProgressStudentsSkillsAdultsGet BetterFirst ClassWriting Skills Author:James Thayer
“If students don't think that you care and can relate, especially as they get older, they tune you out. I didn't get it in my classes at the graduate school of education. I got it intuitively from my own experiences as a student.” IfsThinkingCareSchoolMy OwnClassStudentsRelateTunesGraduatesGraduate School Author:Pedro Noguera
“New York rushed to get students into early childhood programs, but the research is clear that it has to be high quality. What we are giving poor kids now in early childhood is nothing like what we are giving middle-class kids in most places.” GivingKidsPoorQualityClassClearChildhoodMiddleNew YorkStudentsResearchProgramMiddle ClassHigh QualityEarly Childhood Author:Pedro Noguera
“Some of the things I liked in my years as a student in workshops: the occasional in-class prompt; discussions about what it means to be a writer in the world; professors who are brutally honest and encouraging at the same time (this is a tough one).” WorldYearsMeanClassHonestStudentsToughDiscussionProfessorsOccasionalWorkshopsPromptsBrutally Honest Author:Mary J. Miller
“I couldn't have articulated this process at the time; I just sort of did it instinctually. But now when I talk about this with my students all the time, it's one of the first things I address in memoir classes - that you have to put it all in because you're writing your way into the ending of your own story. Even if you think you know what the story is, you don't until you write it. If you start leaving things out you could leave out vital organs and not know it.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayWritingFirstsStoriesProcessClassStudentsLeavingMemoirAddressesOrgansYou Think You Know Author:Melissa Febos
“I do believe that we should substantially lower student debt in this country, which is crushing millions of people. We pay for it, in my view, by a tax on Wall Street speculation. The middle class bailed out Wall Street in their time of need. Now, it is Wall Street's time to help the middle class.” PeopleNeedsShouldBelieveCountryHelpingViewsPayClassMillionsStreetsMiddleStudentsWallTaxesDebtCrushMiddle ClassSpeculationTime Of Need Author:Bernie Sanders
“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
“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 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
“Teaching I realized took up a lot of my time. I was a kind of a teacher that spent time with students, spoke to them after class, tried to help them out. I'd talk with them personally about their work and try to get out of them what they were thinking about, forcing them to thinking seriously and not just falling back on all the ideas that they had picked up someplace. And so I took my job teaching very seriously and that - as a result, it took up a lot of time.” ThinkingTryingKindIdeasHelpingJobsFallResultsClassTeacherTeachingStudentsI RealizedMy TimeSpokes Author:Robert Barry
“Years ago I was in a band called Two Lane Blacktop - we deliberately named ourselves after the 'Two-Lane Blacktop' movie, 'cuz it's a car chase movie. All our songs were based on movies, every single song. I love movies, and that was something that me and the singer in Two Lane Blacktop bonded over - we were design students together, we did a film-class together, so we became obsessed with movies. It's followed me around ever since then, it's a constant theme.” YearsTwoTogetherFilmSongClassCarDesignStudentsBandYears AgoConstantSingersObsessedThemeLanesCuzMovie Love Author:Ladyhawke
“When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which the students and I try to expand the terminology we use to talk about poetry as well as expand our notion of what makes a poem - we read source texts on architecture, dance, photography, film and the graphic novel.” TryingWellsUseFilmClassTeachNovelStudentsSourcePhotographyNotionArchitectureGraduatesTopicsGraphicGraphic NovelsTerminologySeminars Author:Matthea Harvey
“Dalai Lama has made new opportunities for women that they never had in Tibet, introduced science into the monks' curriculum and had Tibetan students in exile take their classes in English after the age of ten so that they will know more about the outside world. But one of the great things he's done is to bring all the Tibetan groups together in exile, as perhaps they couldn't have been when they weren't in exile and they weren't under such pressure.” KnowsWorldHas BeensMadeDoneAgeTogetherOpportunityClassGroupsStudentsTenPressureGreat ThingsExileMonkCurriculumOutside WorldTibetanLamaTibetNew OpportunityDalai Author:Pico Iyer
“When I teach a new group of students, I introduce some yoga philosophy, but I don't overload them with information. Just enough so they understand the real tradition behind this ancient practice and that it's not a stretching class. Guys come in and they're a little nervous. I tell them that when they cross the threshold of the door, they're crossing to a different dimension. They're moving from an externally-oriented reality to an internally-oriented one.” LittlesDifferentRealEnoughPhilosophyRealityMovingGuyBehindsClassTeachPracticeDoorsGroupsInformationStudentsYogaTraditionCrossesAncientNervousDimensionsIntroducingCrossingsStretchingThresholdOverloadDifferent Dimensions Author:James Fox
“I learned when I was a student in Connecticut. I had an Italian-American teacher who gave me classes for a week, and then said, "Okay, you're ready." And I wasn't ready. I didn't know how to drive!. But he knew the policeman who gave the test. And that's how I got through.” KnowsSaidClassKnow HowTeacherWeekStudentsReadyTestsOkayItalianPolicemenConnecticutItalian American Author:Sandra Cisneros
“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
“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
“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
“That's who comes to my workshops. I jokingly tell my students that the class could be called "Your photographs: Better."” ClassStudentsPhotographWorkshops Author:Sam Abell
“I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.” FormClassToo MuchStudentsSourceTerribleMichigan Author:Bill Ayers
“Sometimes, I even learn new techniques from my students. Although I am still a student at the Art Institute, I think that I have learnt a lot from the classes that I have already taken.” ThinkingArtStillsSometimesClassTakenStudentsTechniqueInstituteAlready Taken Author:St. Lucia
“There was a Yale even before Larry [Kramer] and I got there, and there were three designations of students: "white shoe," "brown shoe," and "black shoe." "White shoe" people were kind of the ur-preppies from high-class backgrounds. "Brown shoe" people were kind of the high school student-council presidents who were snatched up and brushed up a little bit to be sent out into the world. "Black shoe" people were beyond the pale. They were chemistry majors and things like that.” PeopleWorldKindLittlesSchoolThreeBitsBlackPresidentWhiteClassStudentsMajorsLittle BitHigh SchoolShoesBackgroundsBrownChemistryPaleCouncilLarryYaleDesignationHigh School StudentsKramerHigh ClassWhite ShoesStudent Council Author:Kevin Sessums
“I think it's a real shame so many schools have taken out the hands-on classes. Art, music, auto mechanics, cooking, sewing, these are all things that can turn into jobs. You know, wood shop, steel shop, welding. These are all things that can turn into great careers, get kids interested. Things they can do with other students. Other things for our word thinkers: journalism clubs, drama clubs.” ThinkingKnowsArtRealHandsKidsSchoolJobsTurnsCan DoClassCareersTakenStudentsDramaAll ThingsShameCookingClubsWoodsJournalismShopsThinkerSteelMechanicOur WordsSewingArt MusicWeldingAuto MechanicDrama Club Author:Temple Grandin
“For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.” InspirationalChildrenAgeTodayFunnyClassMiddleStudentsCollegePercentMiddle ClassWealthyGraduatesGraduationWorking ClassUpper Middle ClassStudents Today Author:Patrick J. Kennedy
“The truth is that the antiwar movement was powered by the working class. The students were the ones that got the media and so forth, but it was the soldiers on the ground who really energized the antiwar movement in the late Sixties.” ClassMediaMovementStudentsTruth IsLateSoldierAntiwarSixtyWorking Class Author:Bill Ayers
“These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students I know are reading contemporary poets (they love Willie Perdomo) and scripts (No Child, by Nilaja Sun and Twilight by Anna Deavere Smith). I don't know their reading habits outside of our class, but I believe that they enjoy stories that they can relate to, learn from, be challenged by - you know, the usual good writing that every reader craves.” PeopleKnowsWritingBelieveChildrenStoriesYoungReadingI BelieveEnjoyClassTeachSunStudentsPoetReaderHabitTheaterScriptsContemporaryRelateThese DaysUsualInteractionTwilightCraveGood WritingAnnaReading Habits Author:Renee Watson
“What I think is bugging this guy [Steven Lerner] is the belief that debt - forced debt upon middle-class people, students (i.e., student loans and so forth) - has made Wall Street bankers and financial people excessively, unfairly, out-of-proportionally rich.” PeopleThinkingMadeGuyBeliefClassRichStreetsMiddleStudentsWallFinancialDebtMiddle ClassThis GuyLoanBankersStudent Loan Author:Rush Limbaugh
“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
“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 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
“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