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Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.
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.
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.
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.
I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow'.
Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and the student grow.
I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
I always feel like everything I shoot is a student project and nobody else knows about it. I forget, in the moment, that other people will see it.
It hit me that the students were talking about me, not God. I was standing before a holy God and robbing Him of the glory that was rightfully His.
My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.
In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.
One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.
As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar to me - very African.
Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.
It is not the aim of Kenpo to merely produce a skillful as well as powerful practitioner, but to create a well integrated student respectful of all.
Do everything you can to learn your craft. Score student films for free, attend conferences, learn music theory - do anything and everything you can.
Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.
Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.
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.
There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That's what I love doing.
As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.
Sometimes you get lit students that know a lot about the canon but virtually nothing about contemporary poetry and vice versa. I like to mix things up.
Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.
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.
Charlie, you’re one of the most gifted people I’ve ever known. And I don’t mean in terms of my other students. I mean in terms of anyone I’ve ever met.
I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn't just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.
First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.
Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.
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.
I suspect most likely that more Nazis came to America. I was a student at Harvard during the early 1950s. There was practically no Jewish faculty there.
Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.
When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.
'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.
Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company and later my degree course all helped form my love of telling stories and directing.
We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.
I teach a lot - I teach at the UCLA and USC graduate film programs - and a lot of those projects are my students' projects that I act in or I do a cameo.
In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.
The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.
A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that you can't tell the teacher from the student.
Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.
I'm always going to be a student. I'm always learning. I'm always trying to grow. I'm always trying to understand. I never want to feel like I've arrived.
There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.
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.
How many students ... were rendered callous to ideas, and how many lost the impetus to learn because of the way in which learning was experienced by them?
This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.
When the students in the South, the blacks, started demonstrating, that was the beginning of the time of students becoming a social force around the world.