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.'
In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.
Without there being some national strategy, it is difficult for educators to know what kinds of engineers or technicians to produce and for potential students to know what professions to study for.
One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming.
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state...
We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.
I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
