Most students have to do some work to resuscitate their childlike curiosity. The best way to do that is to start asking questions again—lots of them.
But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance in school.
I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important.
Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places.
...to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. It kills one's aspirations and dooms him to vagabondage and crime.
In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.
And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.
You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.
Students may not remember what you try to teach them, but they will never forget who you are and what feelings you created in their mind.
Writing seems to free them (students) of the idea that math is a collection of right answers own by the teacher – a body of knowledge that she will dispense in chunks and that they have to swallow and digest.
One of our professors described a lecture as 'a mystical process by which the notes on the pad of the lecturer pass on to the pad of the student, without passing through the mind of either'.
It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.
As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual life in my field is much higher at Harvard. The students work harder there.
We are in a time, because of the proliferation of online media and a hundred channels on cable, where teenagers and young adults and eight- and nine-year-olds do not read enough. And the SAT is very unforgiving for students who do not read.
I remember doing a little student film where we had a guy that couldn't pull focus. We ended up spending three times the amount of time shooting this thing as opposed to if the guy could've just pulled focus.
Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust.
John Milton: Law is the ultimate backstage pass. There are now more students in law schools than lawyers walking the streets.
Mr. Ray: Well, hello Nemo. Who's this? Nemo: Exchange student. Squirt: I'm from the EAC, dude. Mr. Ray: Sweet! Nemo, Squirt: Totally!
Professor McGonagall: Professor Moody! What are you doing? Professor Moody: Teaching. Professor McGonagall: Teach - is that a student? Professor Moody: Technically it's a ferret.
So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.
The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
