During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.
Somehow, talking to young students brings you back to reality - it should, anyway.
The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.
I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
I feel like I am in turbo mode as a student of entertainment.
I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades.
No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.
It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.
I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz people. But going back was strange, and perhaps stranger for the other students.
I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.
I don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years after I did were brought up all on the computers and that's how they do it, but I was still part of the older school.
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.
You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.
We shouldn't be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while giving a great deal to the banks. That's just wrong.
I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.
It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks.
I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.
I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.
With Skype video calling, teachers can provide their students with first-hand knowledge from experts around the world and with other classes who are studying the same subject halfway across the world.
