“Ohio's students deserve a first-class education appropriate for the 21st century, not Sunday School lessons masquerading as science.” FirstsSchoolClassCenturyStudentsLessonsDeserveAppropriateSunday21st CenturyOhioFirst ClassSunday School Author:Barry W. Lynn
“Tthe first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form.... You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life.” IfsKnowsTryingFirstsWellsMayFactsSchoolTogetherRememberFormFailingStudentsTheoryRememberedEmsPoundsIsolatedBangs Author:Charlie Munger
“Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too scrambled, to admit to ourselves that our black pride remained incomplete. And to admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred - for there seemed no reason to expect that whites would look at our private struggles as a mirror into their own souls, rather than yet more evidence of black pathology.” FirstsLooksSoulSelfReasonBlackRealizingWhiteStruggleDoubtIdentityPositionStudentsCollegeExpressionPrideEvidenceHatredMirrorsConfusionDamageNo ReasonExaminationIncompleteSelf HatredPathologyPsychBlack Pride Author:Barack Obama
“...home-schooled students are able to successfully adapt emotionally, interpersonally, and academically to their first, and most challenging, semester in college. That is probably because, having had the consistent teaching and support of a family and a community, they have developed strengths and convictions that provide a bridge over the troubled waters of a multitude of challenges and temptations.” FirstsHomeAbleWaterCommunityChallengesSupportTeachingStudentsCollegeConvictionTemptationBridgesConsistentMultitudesSchooledSemesterTroubled Waters Author:Laura Schlessinger
“As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten. A colleague tells me that some of his fellow legal scholars call child molestation "intergenerational intimacy": that's euphemism. A good-hearted editor tried to talk me out of using the term "sodomy": that's avoidance. My students don't know the word "fornication" at all: that's forgetfulness.” KnowsFirstsChildrenNamesTermSinStageStudentsFellowsForgottenTemptationIntimacyEditorsScholarApprovalColleaguesAvoidedHeartedAvoidanceForgetfulnessTolerationEuphemismGood HeartedMolestation Author:J. Budziszewski
“The very first experiments with building rockets and firing them off were carried out by students at Cal Tech in 1937, '38 and '39. And later these people put together these jet propulsion labs in Pasadena and wound up sending aircraft and spacecraft to the moon. So it all began very primitively with love.” PeopleFirstsTogetherStudentsBuildingMoonWoundsExperimentsRocketsJetLabsAircraftFiringSpacecraftPropulsionPasadena Author:Ray Bradbury
“For the first four years of my studying in the U.S., I couldn't go home for two reasons. One is I was afraid that if I left my student visa may not hold and I wouldn't be able to come back to continue. Second, there was this big outrage in China that I didn't know how to face the public.” IfsKnowsYearsFirstsMayTwoReasonHomeBigsAbleFacesLeftKnow HowStudyFourStudentsChinaFour YearsOutrageVisa Author:Amanda Schull
“I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.” FirstsMeanStudentsMusicianInstrumentsJazzJazz MusicJazz Musician Author:Lester Bowie
“Since the 1970s, I have asked students if they would first try to save their drowning dog or a drowning stranger. And for 40 years I have received the same results: One third vote for their dog, one third for the stranger, and one third don't know what they would do.” IfsKnowsTryingYearsFirstsResultsDogStudentsVoteThirdsStrangerDrowning Author:Dennis Prager
“Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.” YearsFirstsLostAdviceStudentsMedicalAnatomy Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.” FirstsBigsFilmDealsStudentsBreatheMagazinesBig Deal Author:Mackenzie Davis
“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
“When I first came out, I was a film student and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did. But I did it in the most creative way possible.” IfsWayFirstsFilmMillionsCreativeStudentsHairMomClothesMy MomPoundsLunchBraidsFilm Students Author:M.I.A.
“I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you should have something to write about, and you only have something to write about if you do something.” IfsShouldWritingFirstsSchoolLawStudentsShould HaveDoctorsLaw School Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“Teaching in Providence and Oakland, I realized that the first thing is that it wasn't good enough to come in and assume that I had what my students needed in terms of knowledge and skills. I also had to show them that I was their ally. I had to show them that I was concerned about them, wanted to relate to them, and that I was fundamentally on their side.” FirstsEnoughShowsWantedSidesTermTeachingStudentsNeededSkillsConcernedAssumingI RealizedRelateGood EnoughAlliesProvidenceOakland Author:Pedro Noguera
“I think the big turning moment was when I joined the student political action club and started studying nonviolent civil disobedience in response to the Iraq War. The first anti-Bush protest in Atlanta was the first protest that I'd ever been to, and I helped organize the school walkout when I was a junior. It was a really solidifying moment.” ThinkingFirstsWarMomentsBigsActionSchoolPoliticalStudyStudentsResponseIraqClubsProtestOrganizeJuniorsDisobedienceIraq WarCivil DisobedienceAtlantaPolitical Action Author:Cecily McMillan
“One of my favorite tricks was taking a page and having the first student translate it from English into whatever language he or she was working on, and the next one would translate it back into English and then into the foreign language, and we'd go around the room and compare the two English versions at the end, and it would be amazing how much survived.” FirstsTwoEndsWould BeNextLanguageRoomsStudentsPagesMy FavoriteTricksVersionsCompareTranslateSurvivedThe Next OneForeign Language Author:Gregory Rabassa
“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 always tell my students to go back after a hundred pages and rewrite from the beginning. It's really harder if you've already finished four hundred pages and realize the first hundred aren't working.” IfsFirstsRealizingFourStudentsPagesHundredHarderFinished Author:Yiyun Li
“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'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.” FirstsPersonsDifferencesWorryStudentsThirdsFirst PersonThird Person Author:Alice McDermott
“With repeated listenings, a piece eventually becomes its own being. I very often say to students that this is like meeting a person for the first time. When you first meet someone, you reference that person with others who are similar; but, as you get to know that person better, you begin to understand his unique qualities.” KnowsFirstsPersonsQualityPiecesStudentsListeningUniqueFirst TimeMeetings Author:Paul Lansky
“When I first moved to New York I had been trying to work on anything and everything I could. From extra work and commercials to short and student films so I could learn in front of a camera.” TryingFirstsFilmFrontsNew YorkStudentsCamerasMovedExtrasAnything And EverythingExtra Work Author:Pawel Szajda
“My very first venture was a national student magazine to try to campaign against the [Vietnam] War. And so I wanted to be an editor. I wanted to bring the magazine out. And in order for the magazine to survive I had to worry about the printing and the paper manufacturing and the distribution. And, you know, I had to try to, at the end of the year, have more money coming in than going out.” KnowsTryingYearsFirstsWarEndsWantedOrderWorryStudentsPaperCampaignsMagazinesEditorsVietnamMore MoneyGoing OutVentureDistributionVietnam WarManufacturingPrinting Author:Richard Branson
“Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women's health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, 'take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.' It was done on ten thousand male medical students.” KnowsFirstsHeartDoneStudyStudentsThousandTenDoctorsMalesMedicalAgendasNancyHeart AttackProtocolAspirinWomen's Health Author:Barbara Mikulski
“Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.” PeopleWantFirstsStatesFiguresStudentsPoetPraiseShockGraduatesPublic FiguresGraduate Students Author:Erica Jong
“Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to come out easily in the beginning. If you're afraid to say what you really have to say, you stammer. [...] You're judging yourself, you know, thinking about your listener. You're not thinking about what you're saying. And that same thing happens when you write.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantWritingFirstsHappensStudentsJudgingThings HappenListenersThinking About YouJudging Yourself Author:Sandra Cisneros
“The student of arithmetic who has mastered the first four rules of his art, and successfully striven with money sums and fractions, finds himself confronted by an unbroken expanse of questions known as problems.” FirstsArtProblemKnownFourStudentsFractionsArithmeticUnbrokenExpanse Book:The Penguin Stephen Leacock Source: The Penguin Stephen Leacock
“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
“[Irony] has everything to do with what Tillie Olsen so powerfully imagined in her short story, "As I Stand Here Ironing" and elaborates on polemically in her 1978 book, Silences, in a chapter first delivered as a talk in 1967. As Olsen clearly saw it for women, my not being a writer was a material consequence of my being a woman - a wife, mother, housewife, and a certain kind of feminist teacher - attentive, one-on-one, face-to-face, nurturing, the kind who receives high ESCI evaluation scores from undergraduates and graduate students.” FirstsKindBookStoriesFacesMotherCertainSilenceSawsTeacherWifeStudentsMaterialsConsequenceFeministIronyScoreShort StoryGraduatesChaptersFace To FaceNurturingBeing A WomanHousewifeEvaluationOne On OneGraduate StudentsWife Mother Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“Now teach-ins are fairly common or they become common place. But in 1965, the Students for Democratic Society in Ann Harbor organized the first teach-in. The way it happened was that we were advocating for a strike that we advocated that the faculty should strike in solidarity with the Vietnamese struggle.” WayShouldFirstsCommonTeachStruggleHappenedStudentsDemocraticStrikesOrganizedFacultySolidarityHarborsAdvocatingDemocratic SocietyVietnamese Author:Bill Ayers
“The 1980's was the first time in the history of imperialism that people from the imperial society went in substantial numbers to stay with the victims in the hope that their presence would offer some protection and some help. These were not the usual students from elite universities. These were people straight out of middle America.” PeopleFirstsHelpingAmericaNumbersMiddleStudentsOffersFirst TimeVictimUniversityProtectionUsualElitesImperialismMiddle America Author:Noam Chomsky
“Cutting HBCUs was unconscionable. Implementing new regulations on Parent Plus loans, which cost HBCUs 28,000 students, was hostile. At the same time, it is important to note that, except for his first two years, which were a missed opportunity, President [Barack] Obama faced rabid opposition from the Republicans.” YearsFirstsTwoImportantOpportunityParentPresidentCuttingStudentsRepublicanCostNotesBarackOppositionTwo YearsPlusRegulationHostileLoanPresident Barack ObamaMissed OpportunityImplementing Author:Julianne Malveaux
“The Nike swash that cost $30 and was designed by a Portland State University art student was probably worth that when she first showed it to them. At that point it had no equity at all. None of the guys commissioning it particularly liked it, they all wanted the Adidas three stripes and they thought that was a good logo.” FirstsArtStatesWantedGuyThreeStudentsCostUniversityEquityStripesLogosNikePortlandAdidasArt Students Author:Michael Bierut
“When I speak to students, I tell them why we have a First Amendment. I tell them about the Committees of Correspondence. I tell them how in a secret meeting of the Raleigh Tavern in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, who did not agree with each other, started a Committee of Correspondence.” FirstsSpeakSecretStudentsAgreeMeetingsAmendmentsCommitteesFirst AmendmentVirginiaCorrespondenceTavernsRaleigh Author:Nat Hentoff
“What I want to do first with education is my student loan idea. Basically, if you go into teaching and teach for five years, your student loans should be forgiven. It doesn't cost that much.” IfsWantShouldYearsFirstsIdeasTeachFiveTeachingStudentsCostFive YearsForgivenLoanStudent Loan Author:Charles Schumer
“Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to come out easily in the beginning. If you're afraid to say what you really have to say, you stammer. When you're thinking of your listener, that's when you start stuttering and it's just because you're nervous that your listener is passing judgment.” IfsThinkingWantWritingFirstsStudentsJudgmentPassingPassingsNervousListenersThinking Of YouStutteringPassing Judgment Author:Sandra Cisneros
“We are in tough economic times right now, and the first thing we have to do is look at how we're spending the dollars that we have, and at what kind of return on investment we're getting. Because I think it will show that spending more money without fixing the fundamental flaws in the system won't produce anything different in terms of results. In DC, we were spending a whole lot of money on things that had no positive impact on students' achievement levels.” ThinkingFirstsLooksKindDifferentWholeShowsTermLevelsResultsEconomicStudentsProduceReturnRight NowAchievementToughFundamentalsImpactDollarsInvestmentSpendingFlawsMore MoneyLots Of MoneyFixingPositive ImpactReturn On InvestmentStudent AchievementTough Economic Times Author:Michelle Rhee
“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