I think I can be pretty focused, but as I say, it was more wanting to be the good student, seeing myself as a good student, and also, my parents had expectations. They wouldn't have cared if I got a B or a C or even a D.
Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.
Living in London as a student is tough. And my heart goes out to every single drama student in London because, as an actor, it's a creative process that you are taking on, and if you don't get to do it every day, it hurts.
Grades can matter, especially for those students and parents who live for the next round of applications to graduate or professional schools. But there's a problem with the grade emphasis. Math or science graduates earn more than students majoring in...
As far as YU faculty and students are concerned, the love for Israel is very strong. Probably about three thousand of our graduates have settled in Israel. On average, every year 650 male and female students study in Israel for a minimum of one year.
If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.
I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else.
Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college - we were in art college together.
College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.
If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.
Yeah, there was a six-year period where I was pretty much done with show business. During college and then for about two years after college.
My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.
I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Before college, I was Cyndi, and then I think I went to college and I was like, 'You know what? Now I'm Cynthia.'
I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.
Enrollments in American colleges tripled between 1955 and 1970, 250% in the Soviet Union, 400% in France, and more than 200% in China by 1965. Gaddis writes, "What governments failed to foresee was that more young people, plus, more education, when c...
Does affirmative action place minority students in colleges where they're likely to fail while depriving other applicants of the chance to attend the most challenging schools where they are capable of succeeding? Does rent control drive up the cost o...
