The Opportunity Divide doesn't just keep our students disconnected from the mainstream economy; it prevents our businesses from growing.
Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.
I always feel like everything I shoot is a student project, and nobody else knows about it. I forget, in the moment, that other people will see it.
Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.
My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.
I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.
When I met Paul Ryan 22 years ago, he was a student at Miami of Ohio volunteering on my campaign.
The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.
The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving the building of counters or a system like that.
A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read.
In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.
I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.
I think a lot of teachers feel like they're teaching to a test. Our response is you teach to a student, you really teach to the kid.
I believe that everyone has a story, and it is important that we encourage all students to tell theirs.
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.
We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.
The older I get, the more I realize that I am not just the student, but I am my own teacher as well.
I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'
