When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.
Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.
I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.
Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.
Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'
Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.
Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.
I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.
As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to have been edited time and again.
The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that theory, and adding others to it, since that time.
Whether you're an entrepreneur, an employee, a student, a homemaker, a writer, it's time to start forgetting about all the ways the world has promised you safety and comfort.
I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call A.D.D. now, back then I was just a hyper kid.
Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.
Herman Blume: Sharp little guy. Dr. Nelson Guggenheim: He's one of the worst students we've got.
One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook.
In 1975, when my students were kidnapped by rebels, I was accused of hiding instead of trying to save them, and of not giving enough money for their ransom. I wasn't believed.
Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.
I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.
I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors.
Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.
