As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.
The issue here isn't whether every student is brainwashed, it's whether it is appropriate.
I was a disinterested student.
I've never professed to be anything but an average student.
I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.
I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.
So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.
Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.
I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.
Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school.
I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.
The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.
Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.
John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater strain it imposes.
I don't teach my students, I provide the circumstances in which they can learn.
Study and know that we are always a student of the craft well after we've completed any course of study... and approach the work as a servant, not a star.
As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.
Mexican cinematographers Gabriel Figueroa and Emilio Fernandez were students of both Sergei Eisenstein and Toland. Their exteriors and lighting were gorgeous. And the films Ingmar Bergman did with Sven Nykvist were exceptional.
Any great teacher is a great student.
I tell my students, if you are going to spend days and months and years with someone, you had better like that person!
When you're a student and you just want some money to feel like you're an adult, you'll pretty much do anything within reason.
The tenth social network, and limited only to college students with no money, also terrible. Myspace had won.
My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.
The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.
To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.