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Mr. Braddock: Ben, what are you doing? Benjamin: Well, I would say that I'm just drifting. Here in the pool. Mr. Braddock: Why? Benjamin: Well, it's very comfortable just to drift here. Mr. Braddock: Have you thought about graduate school? Benjamin: ...

The Graduate

I think the world is ambivalent about feminism. So I can't blame college students. I think they're reflecting the greater culture's attitude toward feminism. So what I can do is, in ways that are appropriate, advocate for feminism and help the studen...

Roxane Gay

The problem of teaching, therefore, is getting not the facts but the context from my brain to yours.

Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning

One fall day in Boston, a tall mechanical engineering student named Joe entered the student union at Harvard University. He was all ambition and acne

The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home

Are you fully convinced that what is familiar to you is really the better way?

Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning

I had done student films for the School Of Visual Arts and for NYU and all these schools in New York, so those were my first film experiences, but they were student films, so I guess they don't really count.

Guillermo Diaz

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 per...

Maggie Gallagher

Even reading my first bad review was an awesome experience. It was cool because you make something and not everybody's going to like it. I felt like that kind of grew me up a little bit into a professional. I was a student filmmaker, and no one write...

Ryan Coogler

A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkel...

Anant Agarwal

As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough ...

Bill O'Reilly

The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up.

Jim Clyburn

Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs.

Anne Campbell

Some teachers, the less effective ones, thought that fair meant distributing instruction equally to all students regardless of their needs. The exemplary teachers we studied, however thought fair meant working in ways that evened out differences betw...

Life

The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to b...

Dave Eggers

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

Doug Larson

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

Mark Kennedy

I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.

Anne Lamott

I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.

Daniel J. Evans

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

Robert M. Hutchins

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

W. Richard Stevens

Memorization has gotten a bad rap recently. Lots of students, and even some educators, say that being able to reason is more important than knowing facts; and besides, why bother committing things to memory when you've got Google? My response to this...

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