“I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama!” PersonsHelpingPresidentMillionsStudentsCollegeActressesAfrican AmericanIslandsImmigrantsPresident ObamaVolunteerLoanStudent LoanGranddaughterGrand DaughterEllis Island Author:Kerry Washington
“For me, I was in school and I pushed myself to be a good student, just because that's the type of person I was, but I never had a connection to any of it. I don't think my brain functioned in a way that was at its height, when I was in school. I needed something like art to really value the way my mind works. I wasn't reaching my full potential by sitting in a classroom and reading from a book. My mind didn't work that way.” ThinkingWayMindPersonsArtBookSchoolValuesReadingBrainStudentsTypeNeededSittingConnectionsHeightReachingClassroomFull PotentialGood Students Author:Misty Copeland
“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
“Many enlightened persons are never very well known. Many are reclusive. They live in little villages in India or up in the high Himalayas in Tibet. Some have no students at all. Some have a few.” WellsLittlesPersonsKnownTeacherStudentsIndiaEnlightenedVillageWell KnownTibetHimalayas Author:Frederick Lenz
“An enlightened person has real power and when they think a good thought, the tremendous power of attention causes their students to actually lift up into those states. It brings a power into their lives.” ThinkingPersonsRealStatesCausesAttentionTeacherStudentsLiftsEnlightenedGood ThoughtsReal Power Author:Frederick Lenz
“The relationship between the student and teacher is ultimately important. In higher spirituality we don't study a subject as much as a person.” PersonsImportantSpiritualityStudyTeacherSubjectsStudentsHigherYogaBhakti YogaTeacher And Student Author:Frederick Lenz
“Online education, then, can serve two goals. For students lucky enough to have access to great teachers, blended learning can mean even better outcomes at the same or lower cost. And for the millions here and abroad who lack access to good, in-person education, online learning can open doors that would otherwise remain closed.” MeanPersonsTwoEnoughGoalMillionsTeacherDoorsStudentsCostLuckyAccessOutcomesOnlineGreat TeacherOnline Learning Author:Daphne Koller
“I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.” IfsKindMayPersonsHardTurnsActorsAdviceStudentsDirectorsFinalsExtrasFinal WordsWords Of Advice Author:Alan Alda
“One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is.” PersonsArtBigsSchoolGivenBusinessFailingTeachingStudentsArt School Author:Stuart Pearson Wright
“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
“When I sit with students, I do not just want to help them solve their problems. I want to find a moment with each person where their mind stops and their eyes open. I want us to be together as if we were lying in a field on the underside of the earth on a clear summer night, held only by the magnet of gravity, looking down into a bottomless sea of stars. I want us to remember together the beauty all around us.” IfsWantMindPersonsMomentsHelpingProblemEyeEarthTogetherRememberLyingNightStarsClearSeaFieldsStudentsSummerSolveGravityWant UMagnetLooking DownSummer Nights Author:Jack Kornfield
“I consider those persons to be my students who come and meditate with me on a regular basis, who, in spite of the hardships and difficulties on the path of knowledge, still continue to try, and who respect me as I respect them.” TryingPersonsStillsPathStudentsBuddhismBasesDifficultySpiteHardshipRamaRespect Me Author:Frederick Lenz
“When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person.” PersonsFeelingsClassStudentsHumilityReturnLonesomeness Author:Naomi Shihab Nye
“In I'm Not A Racist, But..., Lawrence Blum offers answers for our time about what race is, who is a racist, and ways for people to talk about the racialized features of our society without falling into name-calling or defensiveness. With exemplary moral and analytic clarity, Blum offers educators, students, lawyers, judges, leaders, and citizens tools for building a nation of equality, comity, and respect for each person.” PeopleWayPersonsFallNamesNationsAnswersRaceLeaderMoralStudentsBuildingJudgingCitizensCallingOffersToolsLawyerClarityFeaturesOur TimeOur SocietyRacistEducatorAnalyticsExemplaryName CallingDefensiveness Author:Martha Minow
“If you are that person, you are more likely to believe that God cured you, this invisible force, creator of the universe, cured you, than that you had three idiotic doctors diagnose you. ... I taught physics to pre-med students who became doctors. Not all of them are smart, I assure you.” IfsBelievePersonsUniverseThreeForceStudentsTaughtSmartDoctorsCreatorPhysicsInvisibleIdioticPseudoscienceMeds Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.” ThinkingPersonsMatterPayAttentionIssuesPsychologyStudentsCollegeAccessJournalismPay AttentionSupportiveDeafAccountingDeafnessGallaudet Author:I. King Jordan
“Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar schools as "not black enough." ...Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting.” PersonsHas BeensEnoughSchoolBlackWhiteStudyTeachingStudentsConceptsSettingSettingsLabelsBlack Person Book:Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics Source: Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
“The mantra is a very preliminary exercise for the student to begin to grasp a sense of focus. When they are used by persons who have reached very high levels of attention, they can open up doorways to other worlds.” WorldPersonsUsedLevelsAttentionFocusMeditationStudentsBuddhismExerciseOther WorldsDoorwaysMantrasHigh Level Author:Frederick Lenz
“A lot of the acting students would do modeling in the arts school, so there were some gorgeous girls, but the cliché in our school was to get either the really emaciated person or the really obese person - which is stupid.” PersonsArtSchoolGirlActingStupidStudentsGorgeousModelingArt SchoolObese Author:John Currin
“I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and I teach and I go from university to university. I'm one of the old, but I still go around, but I only see those who are not like that, I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.” IfsFeelsWritingMeanPersonsStillsBookTeachNovelYouthStudentsUniversityWho I AmPrivilegedEssaysJunkListen To Me Author:Elie Wiesel
“I've always been a student of different ways of looking at the world, different religions. That's been part of my survival mechanism, and also part of my curiosity as a person.” WorldWayPersonsDifferentStudentsSurvivalCuriosityDifferent WaysMechanismDifferent Religions Author:Assata Shakur
“Once you know that every moment and every person and every situation has something to teach you, you're a student all day. You know it's the depth of your observation that is the issue - not how much the world has to show you.” KnowsWorldPersonsMomentsShowsSituationTeachIssuesStudentsDepthObservation Author:Marianne Williamson
“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 you do well in school as a young person you can foresee a bountiful future for yourself. When you don't do well, the future you see is bleak. It's tough to find an honour student in trouble with the law. We have to feel that we're of value and we get that from people reacting to our prudence.” PeopleFeelsWellsPersonsSchoolLawYoungValuesTroubleStudentsToughHonourPrudenceReactingBleak Author:George Chuvalo
“My mother did an incredible job - one, of just being a great mom, but two, of instilling a tremendous amount of empathy into me as a young man, as a young person. My mom was kind of this collector of people; throughout my childhood, it didn't matter who you were. She was a high school counselor and then a junior high counselor, and she didn't just counsel students, she counseled other teachers and administrators and coaches.” PeopleMenKindPersonsTwoMatterSchoolJobsYoungMotherTeacherChildhoodStudentsMomAmountEmpathyHigh SchoolIncrediblesMy MomCoachesYoung ManJust BeingJuniorsCollectorsCounselorJunior HighAdministratorsGreat Mom Author:Morgan Spurlock
“I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.” IfsFeelsWellsPersonsBitsMillionsPositionStudentsPaintingWallPoundsTrappedPosters Author:Damien Hirst
“I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions. There's a big taboo in fiction creative writing workshops against using the self at all, and I think I try to encourage students to write the self, but to connect the self to something larger, which is to be this thinking, seeing, searching, eternally curious person, and that writing can come out of investigating and trying to understand confusion, and doubts, and obsessions.” ThinkingWritingTryingPersonsSelfPhilosophyBigsFormLiteratureFictionCreativeDoubtSeeingStudentsTheoryObsessionConfusionCuriousCreative WritingTabooWorkshopsInvestigatingWriting WorkshopEncourage Students Author:Kate Zambreno
“...I think there's only one [thing] that anybody teaches, and this is character. And I think that whether you are teaching history, math, or biology, or music, what you are really doing is, you are helping to shape the character of that person who is your student... Music is such a wonderful teaching tool, because while you are developing musical skills, that student can learn a lot about discipline [and] cooperation.” ThinkingPersonsCharacterHelpingTeachWonderfulOne ThingTeachingStudentsDisciplineShapesSkillsMusic IsToolsMusicalMathDevelopingBiologyCooperationTeaching History Author:Rich Mullins
“Create sacred spaces in the workplace as well. Classrooms, five years ago, professors would say, I don't want be a nanny to my students. They can do whatever they want. Now professors are saying, put away that laptop, because studies show that it not only takes away the attention of the person who's on the laptop from the class, but everyone around them. There's like a circle around that person that's distracted and not paying attention.” WantYearsWellsPersonsShowsCan DoSpaceAttentionClassStudyFiveStudentsYears AgoSacredCirclesPay AttentionFive YearsProfessorsClassroomWorkplaceDistractedLaptopsNanniesSacred Space Author:Judy Woodruff
“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
“I feel that students always learn more from each other than they do from their professor. They learn by doing and not by trying to soak up information from one person.” FeelsTryingPersonsInformationStudentsProfessors Author:Pauline Oliveros
“I tell my students, if you are going to spend days and months and years with someone, you had better like that person!” IfsYearsPersonsStudentsMonths Author:Susan Nagel
“One of the ways to reduce that barking would be to have volunteers come in especially for hte for the dogs and take each dog out for 45 minutes each day and spend quality time with the person - that would help reduce the stress and in fact, one of my students did a study on that.” WayPersonsFactsHelpingWould BeQualityStudyMinutesDogStudentsStressEach DayVolunteerQuality Time Author:Temple Grandin
“In high school I went to the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. And this is like Fame. It's like that sort of prototypical, dancers in the hallway, theater students, musical students, art geeks. And it was a kindergarten in the truest sense of the world: a children's garden where I was able to sort of really come into myself as an artist, as a person, sexuality issues - like, all of this became something where there was a firming-up and a knowing that went on.” WorldChildrenPersonsArtAbleSchoolArtistKnowingIssuesStudentsFameHigh SchoolGardenTheaterMusicalSexualityDancerLos AngelesGeekCountyTruestKindergartenHallways Author:Kehinde Wiley
“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
“The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school. Five years later, a quarter of us were in SDS, in Students for Democratic Society. Not because we were particularly chosen or because we were as I say, we were lucky but we were mainly luckily to grow up at a time where this black freedom movement was really defining the moral character of what it meant to be a citizen and a person.” MenYearsPersonsCharacterFactsSchoolYoungGrowsBlackMoralGrowing UpFiveMovementStudentsCitizensLuckyDemocraticChosenYoung ManFive YearsMeant To BeQuartersDefiningDemocratic SocietyMoral CharacterPreps Author:Bill Ayers
“Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily to an irrational primitive mental state.” WorldPersonsStatesDreamSleepStudentsContactPrimitiveIrrationalPlatoDeprivedOutside World Author:Erich Fromm
“When I was a kid I loved to read, but I didn't write and I didn't create imaginary worlds. So, if one student walks away thinking, "She's obviously just an ordinary person, yet she gets to make her living doing what she wants to do. Maybe that applies to me, too," then I feel like my time has been well spent.” IfsThinkingWorldWantFeelsWritingWellsPersonsHas BeensKidsWalksStudentsOrdinaryMy TimeImaginaryOrdinary PersonImaginary World Author:Kate DiCamillo
“Many of my students learn different techniques online and I have learnt a lot using this medium. Art is picking up in the Caribbean but it's unfortunate that we still have people looking down on it. Many persons who don't know better think that having a career in art is a waste of time. I guess the public just needs to be educated some more.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsPersonsArtStillsDifferentCareersStudentsWasteArt IsTechniqueMediumsEducatedOnlineWasting TimeUnfortunateCaribbeanLooking Down Author:St. Lucia
“[Malcolm Fraser] went straight from Melbourne Grammar to Oxford. And he would have been a very lonely person, and I think he probably met a lot of black students there who were also probably lonely. I think he formed friendships with them, which established his judgement about the question of colour. That’s my theory. I don’t know whether it’s right or not, but that’s what I always respected about Malcolm. He was absolutely, totally impeccable on the question of race and colour.” ThinkingKnowsPersonsHas BeensBlackRaceStudentsColorTheoryMetsLonelyJudgementGrammarOxfordImpeccableMelbourneRace And ColorLonely Person Author:Bob Hawke
“This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.” PersonsTeacherStudentsParadoxTeacher Student Book:Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away