The issue here isn't whether every student is brainwashed, it's whether it is appropriate.
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
Teach the student first, the music second and the piano third.
Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?
Never compare one student's test score to another's. Always measure a child's progress against her past performance. There will always be a better reader, mathematician, or baseball player. Our goal is to help each student become as special as she can be as an individual--not to be more special than the kid sitting next to her.
As a student, you have to learn what areas are most difficult for you. . . Those are the same difficulties you'll have as a professional artist, so the school is the place to notice them and to find a way to make them work.
I read Macbeth as a secondary student in Nigeria and it was like an African play to me. It had all the right elements - witches, kings and assassinations.
I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.
A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is embraced in advertising, self-help books, and much more. . . . Yamada, who is both a scholar of Buddhism and a student of archery, offers refreshing insight into Western stereotypes of Japan and Japanese culture, and how these are received in Japan.
[James Mattis] is a student of history. He's a strategic thinker.
If you're, like, a PhD student in English, and you look at each instance that Richard Yates is mentioned in the book. . . it has sort of it's own narrative that one could analyze and write literary criticism about.
You can't subvert knowledge until you have knowledge. . . At the same time, I respect a student coming at it from a totally different position and trying to move it forward, and not falling into the rattrap of work that came before.
I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.
I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.
Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school. . . not even in my college textbooks. I'm a geophysicist, and [in] all my Earth science books when I was a student - I had to give the wrong answer to get an A.
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.
Love isn't as simple as you wish it would be. On the other hand, it's nowhere near as complicated as you fear it is. My advice to you is to extinguish any itch you might have to compel love to serve any agenda whatsoever. Instead, bow down before it with all the innocence you can muster, and declare yourself ready to be its humble student and servant. Celebrate through surrender.
The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.
I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.
There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like. "