Because of the flexibility that community colleges afford, many students do not have to choose between an education and fulfilling other responsibilities - they can do both.
An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.
My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students.
When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.
You can't just abandon accountability measures in schools... Educators want that because otherwise they can't identify achievement-gap issues for students.
We prepare our students for jobs and careers, but we don't teach them to think as individuals about what kind of world they would create.
I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.
It's vital our students think differently and explore their options when it comes to post-secondary education, so they can be adaptable in the disruptive economy of the future.
[Students] often have a "We can figure this out - don't just tell us" attitude. In that way, they can be less patient with "traditional" approaches to teaching.
It's important for students to learn to make smart money management decisions before heading off to college or the entering the workforce.
I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.
I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.
We need teacher educators who regularly spend a great deal of time in classrooms so they have a deep understanding of where they students will teach.
What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well.
Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.
But you also are facing an uphill battle if you are trying to be the first teacher who asks students to think in class and they are already 16 years old.
We should make sure that unscrupulous schools do not prey on uninformed students, leaving them with high debt and useless degrees.
I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.
I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.
Ohio's students deserve a first-class education appropriate for the 21st century, not Sunday School lessons masquerading as science.
The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.
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.
The resources at Harvard - its professors, our fellow students, the libraries, its alumni - created for me the opportunity to pursue my passions in finance.
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.
A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw.
Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.
We as educators need to reconsider our roles in students' lives, to think of ourselves as connectors first and content experts second.
I try to teach my students that books are a mirror, reflecting their own lives, and a window, giving them a peek into someone else's.
This is a great tool for students as the book gets right to the heart of learning how to learn and engaging your whole brain.
We have a lot to learn from the Tudor education system. It had diversity, placed rigorous demands on its students, and encouraged high achievement.
I am no Rushdie. The only people who think of silencing me are my students, on days when my lectures are more opaque than usual.
In 1952, I was appointed Professor at the University of Bonn and Director of the Physics Institute, with very good students waiting for a thesis advisor.
Once you get your education it's going to open up so many doors for you. And the sky's the limit. So that's what I want to deliver to students.
I am looking forward to sharing the knowledge I have accumulated as a player, coach and member of the working media with the students at the Cronkite School.
A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.
We need to make college affordable in price, and also have lower-cost student loans and more available grants for students.
I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.
Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies.
It's exciting and encouraging that the spirit of exploration is alive and that students see it occurring in their lifetime. These may well be the children that make it a reality.
If the Department of Education is serious about fighting for students and protecting taxpayers, a full ban of mandatory arbitration clauses is a no-brainer.
I'm always telling my students that the weirdest thing is the truth. I mean, the fact that we get up in the morning and put on clothes is weird.
We've long believed teachers know best what their students need to succeed, and that includes the creation of healthy, supportive school communities.
I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.
Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.
I found with my students they don't necessarily look at journals any more, but they print right away from the internet what's relevant to what's he doing you see.
I believe that the future is determined by the great public universities. They educate 80 percent of the students and make the American Dream available.
The first film set I was on was Karan Johar's 'Student of the Year.' I was somewhere behind in the crowd with many people as college students.
The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.
I believe that over 90 percent of LU students try hard to comply with the behavioral code and are supportive of the school's mission.
You [Jill Stein] want to do something about student debt. And that affects conservative and liberal students. That's going to be a majoritarian position.
Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.
Nothing annoys academics more than pointing out how little time they actually spend teaching students.
When I got to college, I discovered how many incredible opportunities NASA offered students pursuing a career in the space industry.
There must be something here for me to get or to share or to do. So I have the duty that I do, the dharma that I do - which I love - with my teaching, with my family, my son, my students, my girlfriend.
Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.
Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.
My mother, who is a Carnatic musician, started a school for children when I was around three, and I grew up listening to her teaching students.
All students of disaster movies know that nothing survives these natural onslaughts except cats and the highest paid film stars.
It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to burn the place down.
When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.
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