Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to support them through rough times.
I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.
Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.
It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
In a sinful world, no community can exist for long where nobody is ever held accountable: no teacher would grade a student's performance; no citizen would sit on a jury or call a failed leader to account.
I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.
I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.
Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.
Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.
A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.
The nice thing about student drama is that you're allowed to get things wrong, because it doesn't mean no one will ever hire you again.
Typically, students slide into debt through the extension (by credit card companies) of unaffordable credit lines.
I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.
Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but even higher expectations for themselves.
...our students should be playing Beethoven with research processes, but instead we are hearing Mary Had a Little Lamb.
Now students all seem to be converging on the same self, the successful upper-middle-class professional, impersonating the adult they've already decided they want to become.
If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.
Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree.
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.
