“I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.” IfsPastEducationLandStudentsTaughtTerribleQuietTwentiesMuseumsMute Author:Eduardo Galeano
“When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his treatment of dissonance and his disdain for the established forms. He reputedly turned to a fellow student during a performance of Beethoven with the words, "Let's go. He's starting to develop.” TwoAgeFormStudentsTenPerformancesTwentiesFellowsStartingParisTreatmentRebelDisdainDissonanceTwenty TwoConservatoryDebussy Author:Claude Debussy
“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
“my advice to every student who is trying to make a decision for the years immediately after graduation: take the opportunity that in your mind is the most rewarding, that you are most passionate about and that you find most interesting and save the rest of your life for being risk averse. Whatever you want to do, this is the time to pursue it. Twenty years from now, your freedom to take risks will be limited.” WantTryingYearsMindOpportunityDecisionInterestingRiskAdviceStudentsTwentiesPassionatePursueRest Of Your LifeMost InterestingYour Freedom Author:Kenneth C. Griffin
“In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequently with numerous faculty and student colleagues at Carnegie-Mellon University, they have made basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing.” YearsHumansMadeEffortPsychologyStudentsTwentiesUniversityListsCorporationsContributionFacultyArtificial IntelligenceCollaborationArtificialColleaguesJointsCognitionExtendingProcessingCarnegieJoint EffortsCarnegie Mellon Author:Allen Newell
“This project started nearly twenty years ago as an assignment in my typography class at art school. Students were encouraged to see letters beyond their dull, practical functionality. We played with their unique shapes and tinkered with their infinite possibilities. The challenge was hard, so the reward of “cracking” a word felt great. This became a lifelong project for me.” YearsArtHardSchoolFeltChallengesClassPossibilityStudentsShapesProjectsUniqueYears AgoLettersTwentiesInfiniteRewardsPracticalsDullLifelongAssignmentsArt SchoolInfinite PossibilitiesTypographyFunctionality Author:Ji Lee
“As a community college professor for over twenty years, I've seen the determination, resilience and dedication of countless students. Regardless of circumstances, they show up. They work hard. They believe anything is possible.” YearsBelieveHardShowsCommunityStudentsCollegeHard WorkCircumstancesDeterminationTwentiesResilienceProfessorsDedicationAnything Is PossibleCommunity CollegeCollege Professors Author:Jill Biden
“My idea of storytelling is - I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich August Kekule worked for twenty years trying to figure out the structure of the benzene ring, and he couldn't do it. And then one night he was sleeping and he had a vision of a snake swallowing its tail. So he told his students about it and they said, 'Not bad, you go to sleep and you wake up with that.' And he said, 'Visions come to prepared spirits.' The way Billy Wilder put it was 'The muse has to know where to find you.'” KnowsWayTryingYearsSaidIdeasSpiritualSpiritNightReligiousSleepVisionFiguresStudentsWake UpTwentiesStructurePreparedRingsStorytellingTailsMuseThey SaidSnakesOne NightGoing To SleepAugustChemistSwallowingWilderBenzene Author:David Milch
“I've always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living in New York and working a job and could barely bother to be a college student and had my own apartment, but I couldn't possibly get married before I was thirty-nine.” WayJobsMy OwnNew YorkStudentsCollegeLateMarriedTwentiesNineBotherThirtyApartmentCollege StudentsPrecocious Author:Meghan Daum
“If you have to pay about forty to forty-three percent of your income for housing, you also have to pay fifteen percent of your paycheck for the FICA for Social Security wage withholding. You have to pay medical care, you have to pay the banks for your credit card debt, student loans. Then you only have about twenty-five or thirty-five percent, maybe one-third of your salary to buy goods and services. That's all.” IfsCareThreeSocialPayFiveSecurityStudentsPercentThirdsTwentiesCreditDebtMedicalIncomeCardsThirtyFortyGoodsFifteenSocial SecurityHousingLoanSalaryCredit CardTwenty FivePaychecksMedical CareGoods And ServicesWithholdingStudent LoanCredit Card Debt Author:Michael Hudson
“Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.” ThinkingMenLittlesBookSelfReadingMeditationStudentsMastersPrideConstitutionTwentiesNotesSakeAnalysisAffectedMottoGood BookDisabledHasty Author:Charles Spurgeon
“The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to love and a lot harder to hate, where learning nonviolence means that we dedicate our hearts, minds, time, and money to a commitment that the force of love, the force of truth, the force of justice, and the force of organized resistance to corrupt power are seen as sane and the force of fists, guns, armies, and bombs insane.” WorldYearsMindHeartMeanLittlesHateForceJusticeStudentsEasierGunCommitmentHarderArmyTwentiesResistanceInsaneOrganizedBombsNonviolenceSaneFistsDisobedienceTime And MoneyCorrupt Power Book:I'd Rather Teach Peace Source: I'd Rather Teach Peace
“For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.” YearsVoiceTeachTeacherOne ThingStudentsTwentiesWho You Are Author:Betty Buckley
“It’s a world where high school students look roughly twenty-four.” WorldLooksSchoolFourStudentsHigh SchoolTwentiesHigh School Students Author:Jane Lynch