if you ask who are the customers of education, the customers of education are the society at large, the employers who hire people, things like that. But ultimately I think the customers are the parents. Not even the students but the parents. The problem that we have in this country is that the customers went away. The customers stopped paying attention to their schools, for the most part.
I am enormously pleased to become a part of the Harvard community once again. I look forward to working with the students and faculty members at the Law School and in the History Department, and to experiencing the rich interdisciplinary environment at the Radcliffe Institute.
When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.
He would usually study with a small group of students, men and women.
For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again to the otherwise boring article, braving the students who, fresh as each class may be, will still ask the same questions year after year. Psychological survival is not achieved without effort, and the environment must be managed, knocked about with one's elbows until it takes a shape comfortable to one's sense of self. This is not selfishness, for in reshaping the environment the academic is also reinvigorating the educational process.
She talked to me like I was just like any other student, not a kid in a wheelchair.
If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.
When I teach criticism, the first thing I say, and this sometimes pisses off younger - I mean, students, is that, opinions are the least part of criticism. We've all had the experience of going with a friend to a movie or a concert and you leave the theater and one of you loved it and one of you hated it, and that doesn't mean that one of you is an idiot. That's the way things work.
Deepika asked questions like a diligent student. She talks little and saves all she has for the shot.
For me, teaching is about weaving a web of connectedness between myself, my students, the subject I'm teaching, and the larger world.
All students can learn.
When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
My students often say, "My roommate read this story and really liked it", and it's hard to convince them that there are things wrong with it. I say, "well, people who love you want you to be happy. But I'm your professor and I'm supposed to be teaching you something. "
When I was a congressman, I had occasion to talk to this group of students who were taking their seat. There were about 80 of them and I asked them, 'How many of you will be serving in the country once you graduate?' And, out of the 80, there were two that raised their hands. The rest were thinking of leaving.
Learn how to prioritize all your debt. And did you know student loan debt is the most dangerous debt any of us can have?
You went to all that trouble just for my body?" I said, amazed and so grateful. Reyn looked up, irritation on his face. "Yeah. We were going to have you stuffed, as an example to future students. " I grinned, "You could put me on wheels, move me from room to room.
The aim of academic trade theory is to tell students, "Look at the model, not at how nations actually develop. " So of all the branches of economic theory, trade theory is the most wrongheaded.
I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy.
Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it's all about making money. They know people want to see what they've seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow
To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.