The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.
When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.
A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.
If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.
If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?
Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.
The sign of a true Guardian is to guide a child with integrity and to leave the student with the wisdom of choice.
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I was born scientist but my school turned me into just student
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.
Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the ...
In my freshman and sophomore years of college, I read dozens of books by the great thinkers of Western civilization. From Plato to Nietzsche, Homer to Shakespeare - you name it, I read it. At times it drove me crazy - picture reading hundreds of page...
The student body, too, felt more diverse. Rob spoke often of "real people" with his friends, by which he meant people who struggled, like they all did. On the Ivy League campus visits, any sense of daily or long-term struggle had seemed airbrushed. A...
Sophia sat in meditation on the riverbank when a student bent down to place two enormous pearls at her feet as a gift. She opened her eyes to see the pearls. She picked one up, but dropped it. It rolled down the hill upon which she was sitting and in...
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 tha...
When I took over as chair of the fashion program, I was horrified that only the faculty member was allowed to speak in a critique. I'm talking about perfectly nurturing teachers. But the rule was there would be no call of hands for students to contri...
