If you have a big splash of ecstasy in your life every day you are going to teach students something finer than "buy low/sell high". Maybe you'll teach them, not by what you say but by who you are, to live their lives as a standing affront to the ravaging mercantile mentality.
Students who are put in a university who aren't qualified tend to have lower graduation rates, they have lower grades, they have lower bar passage rates. You can demonstrate that. You are putting them in position where they are not set up to succeed.
As a student, I don't have a lot of expenses. I buy food. I play a sport. But that's about it.
The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.
Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.
The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.
No matter how long you spend at creation, you're always a student.
I never considered myself more able than anybody because I had problems just like anybody else. When I practiced, I solved problems, like any of my fellow students. I looked at my own work, and looked ahead, with blinders, almost.
We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.
The student will try to defy the master. Always.
'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.
John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.
I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.
I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.
Harvard has something that manages, I think, to provide a lot of options for students, but still fairly prescriptive about the kinds of subjects that the courses ought to cover.
You have to have students wanting to take the courses, otherwise you're not going, they're not going to be very effective.
It used to be that you would go into a writing program and what you would learn was how to write a short story. You would pick up the magazines and you would be taught from the magazines how to write a short story. Nowadays student writers are learning to write novels because that market is gone, so the ones who are drawn to the form are doing it really for reasons of their own and that's really exciting.
Students of America, working families of America: President Obama will not turn his back on you.
I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.
I found that I loved producing that kind of propaganda and I loved the power that a few students with a Macintosh computer could wield. I was hooked on communications at that point.
Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.
I was a terrible English student.
Another obligation that I have as a teacher is to make available to students a range of options and devices and approaches, rather than saying "well here's one way to do it and that's the only way that's good."
I teach a graduate photo seminar at Yale, and I sometimes feel so overwhelmed by the task the students set before themselves to be artists, because - it seems so quaint, but when I picked up a camera with a group of other women, I'm not gonna say it was a radical act, but we were certainly doing it in some sort of defiance of, or reaction to, a male-dominated world of painting.
