Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
From good examples we learn how to be. From bad examples we learn how to be. An observant and willing student can learn from any circumstance.
Negativity sells. I have been labelled a rebel. If I had been one, would I have got married at 23? Would I have been a straight A student?
I've come to learn, and to establish mine in that same place i come from. Staying in my school place makes me always a student.
Even if you were to fall into extreme financial hardship and file for bankruptcy, you need to understand that your student loan debt will not be discharged in bankruptcy. It is the Velcro of all debts.
God sends Children, Parents help them grow up. Teachers teach students, An academy makes them Professionals.
I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.
My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
I'll be honest; I'm a student of fashion. I say that because I just wear what I feel. I'm not led by name brands and things like that.
I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.
I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.
I tell my students that if you have enough preparation, you can handle the big interviews. You won't be intimidated.
I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.
Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.
My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be.
I was a little fat pudgy kid with big thick glasses, and I was quiet and never said a word, you know - teachers loved me, straight-A student.
Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?
We created a show and a scenario for college students where they can take what they learn in class every day and apply it to the real world.
After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.
I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together.
