Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
'Lord Of The Rings' fandom was massive, worldwide, entrenched. Generally it had been part of the fans' life all their life, because they had it read to them as children; they'd become Tolkien students.
The students realize that it's their life I'm talking about: it's out of balance, they're struggling to put it into balance. How are they going to do it?
We need to have an educational system that's able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn't have to fit into a certain mold of learning.
As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.
I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.
At Year Up, we have helped thousands of students rise from poverty into a professional career in a single year.
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.
A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone.
[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).
Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.
The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.
Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.
We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.
You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can.
Never embarrass a student in front of others. Embarrass yourself often to relieve the tension, but do not paint them into a corner.
There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community.
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.
