Educationists and teachers should think how they could play a role in making students spend time doing creative activities.
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.
If I'm at the University of Georgia and I can't inspire this room full of students, OK, fine. I'm not going to take it personally. Maybe a little bit, but I'll be all right.
Isn't prom just a fun dance that hardworking students deserve? Sure, but it's also an event where girls internalize damaging cultural messages.
The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject.
This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.
The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.
Social media allows people to connect. So instead of reading about the Arab Spring, I can have students following along, in real-time, with what is happening.
The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people.
When I came to California, the first four parts I did were Stanford students. I think I should get an honorary degree from them.
Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic.
Using a service such as Chegg.com, students can save on average more than $600 a year when they rent textbooks over purchasing them.
What if we were to take seriously the possibility that our students have a rich and authoritative inner life and tried to nourish it rather than negate it?
Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.
My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.'
While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.
Until all students are faced by the tragedies, the contradictions and the stark questions of life, they cannot understand the need for redemption or God's redemptive action.
Our admissions system should be a vehicle for justice, but it is failing working-class students, especially those who are the first in their family to go to university.
Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?
Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.
When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
I strongly support extending current student loan interest rates and increasing the college tuition tax credit for students and their families.
I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic students.
I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.
We believe Skype in the Classroom will be a milestone in inspiring the next generation of social entrepreneurs and we can't wait to connect students with TOMS partners.
When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.
My guess is the great majority of teachers would welcome a system where innovation is embraced, where their hard work and their students' achievement are applauded and rewarded.
I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.
And certainly having gone to Oxford, and seen some of the other students there, I wouldn't say the ones at my school were less capable. They could've been there.
As a former teacher, I know how frustrating it must be to watch students walk out of class, particularly if they have important exams on the horizon.
A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children.
I know from first-hand experience that separating transgender students from their peers can cause many to leave school, hide who they are, or even do the unthinkable.
I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.
We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive.
Legacies, athletes, and favored racial minorities all receive preferential treatment from admissions committees to the exclusion of academically better-qualified students.
I absolutely love writing and sharing my enthusiasm with students, and because of 'Hattie Big Sky,' Montana holds a special place in my heart.
Alan [Ferber] is a great trombonist and composer. I'm thankful that I got some associations like that through peers and former students. That's kind of what it is.
A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.
How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.
We should empower teachers to do their job by cutting wasteful spending and crippling bureaucracy, not classroom resources our educators and students need.
It is my hope to teach my students how to work a match and at the same time put on an entertaining show that you aren't embarassed to bring your kids to.
Business schools need to address students on a human being level, not as cogs in the machine to supply fresh talent to big companies.
I've seen with my own students, community colleges offer an affordable route to four-year college degrees and good paying jobs.
Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. "
I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.
'Never change' is the thing that probably high school students have written in each other's yearbooks for time immemorial. They think that command is possible!
As I tell my intro creative writing students, after reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write.
We must prioritize postsecondary enrollment so that our students are earning degrees and credentials that get them into the workforce and contributing to Connecticut's economy.
I'm proud to stand beside you as a partner and support Special Olympics - an important program that promotes leadership and empowers students to be agents of change.
The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses.
States are better equipped to serve students than the federal government, and we should direct funding to programs that have a demonstrated record of success.
The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college.
To give students the best possible chance to succeed, education must prepare them to handle issues that transcend national boundaries.
[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.
In New York now, they have Harvey Milk High School for gay students. They don't have much of a football team, but the half-time show . . .
Columbia students called me a baby killer, but remained silent for Ahmadinejad. I'm not sure if that was out of fear for the Iranian president or admiration.
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)
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