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.
Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.
Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'
Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.
Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.
I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.
As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to have been edited time and again.
The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that theory, and adding others to it, since that time.
