Faculty Quotes - Page 22

• Obviously input is helpful to faculty in trying to come up with a curriculum, but ultimately it's the faculty's job to know what students need to know. Make a decision about it and present it.

  Louis Menand

  Jobs, Decision, Trying

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The difficulty with coming up with a curriculum is mainly that faculty aren't trained to think in terms of general education. They're trained to think in terms of their own discipline, or their specialty.

  Louis Menand

  Thinking, Discipline, Curriculum

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Getting faculties to come to a consensus about something that they've never really thought about or had to worry about in their careers before can be a rather slow process and a long process, it certainly was the case at Harvard, and it's the case with most of the general education curricula that I know of, it takes four or five years just to get everybody on board with one idea.

  Louis Menand

  Years, Careers, Ideas

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I went to a mystery writers conference ... and I learned a lot not only from the faculty - and in the faculty we had forensic doctors, detectives, policemen, experts in guns, etc. - but from the questions of the students.

  Isabel Allende

  Gun, Doctors, Experts

  "The Mystery Of Isabel Allende: Author Explores New Genre". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, nwpr.org. January 25, 2014.

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• Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Philosophy, Greek, Islam

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Men, Independence, Finals

  Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357, 1927.

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• I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled in the arts. So that recognition I credit for my growing interest in art that continued to evolve later on.

  Paul Smith

  Teacher, Art, School

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• I graduated in June 1948 and then went in the fall to the art school. I stayed with my cousins on Seventeenth Street in the beginning, and later had my own apartment very near there and was able to walk to the Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue. The school had a faculty of local artists - Jeanette and Robert Blair, James Vullo who were well known in the area. It was a school that I think thrived on returning GIs, as many schools did at that time. It was a very informal program - but it was professional.

  Paul Smith

  Art, Cousin, Fall

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• The class situation [at Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue] was such that one would be very much on their own to paint or draw. The faculty was roving to give opinions or help out technically, which all the faculty did very well.

  Paul Smith

  Art, Class, Giving

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• One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems - where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?

  Chinua Achebe

  Doctors, America, Leaving

  "Things fall apart: Chinua Achebe and Nigeria" by Tolu Ogunlesi, www.cnn.com. March 25, 2013.

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• Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.

  Oscar W. Firkins

  Humor, Greatness, Serious

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• Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things which would succeed if carried through without thinking.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Failure, Thinking, Owing

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• In the Republic Plato presents a theory of personality. ... He speaks of three faculties, the appetitive, the ambitious, and the rational. ... The most dangerous faculty according to Plato is the appetitive for it bonds the soul to the senses and the realm of sense objects.

  Thomas McEvilley

  Plato, Personality, Soul

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• The finest imagination in the world could not have conceived of a better idea than the philosophers' stone to inspire the minds and faculties of men. Without it, chemistry would not be what it is today. In order to discover that no such thing as the philosopher's stone existed, it was necessary to ransack and analyze every substance known on earth. And in precisely this lay its miraculous influence.

  Justus von Liebig

  Men, Order, Ideas

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• In arriving at the relevant theory about the specifics of our faculty of vision we will presumably use our eyes to gather relevant data. Based on such data we come to know about the optic nerve, the structure of our eyes, the rods and cones, etc., so as to explain how it is that vision gives us reliable access to the shapes and colors of objects around us. In reliably arriving at that theory we thus exercise the very faculty whose reliability is explained by the theory. There is no vice in this sort of circularity.

  Ernest Sosa

  Eye, Exercise, Color

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We can pursue the Cartesian project without restricting ourselves to theology and a priori faculties. A better, broader perspective is properly sought if we pursue the project with reliance on science broadly and on our full span of epistemic competences, including the empirical as well as the a priori.

  Ernest Sosa

  Perspective, Projects, Theology

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Kant thinks of judgment as a special faculty or talent of the mind, not reducible to discursive reasoning but cultivated through experience and practice.

  Allen W. Wood

  Thinking, Practice, Mind

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There is no author or legislator of the moral law. It is simply valid in itself in the nature or essence of things. We become autonomous only when we obey it, because then our will aligns itself with the objectively valid law, and our choice follows the same law as that we give ourselves. We can think of rational faculty (or the idea - the pure rational concept, not exhibitable in experience) as the legislator or author of the law because reason recognizes an objective standard, and to that extent is already aligned with objective moral truth.

  Allen W. Wood

  Thinking, Law, Essence

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Lately I feel being political is also about the company I keep and the ideas I put forward. When I do a curate a program or do a workshop, I want to make it intergenerational; I want to have women on the faculty and also among the students.

  Vijay Iyer

  Ideas, Political, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Think of the soul as the computer system that runs the whole thing. And then the spirit is the executive center. It's the faculty of choice. And then you want that faculty governed by the truth of God and the Spirit of God.

  Dallas Willard

  Running, Thinking, Choices

  Source: renovare.org

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• Now teach-ins are fairly common or they become common place. But in 1965, the Students for Democratic Society in Ann Harbor organized the first teach-in. The way it happened was that we were advocating for a strike that we advocated that the faculty should strike in solidarity with the Vietnamese struggle.

  Bill Ayers

  Struggle, Way, Firsts

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think we at the faculty level have to model this behavior of having people that really truly disagree with one another be able to discuss those beliefs with one another at the level of discussion and argument and not at the level of, you know, personal attack so that our students can learn how to do that, too.

  Mark Schlissel

  Thinking, People, Levels

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Everybody's complaining about all of Trump's cabinet members, how rich they are, that's horrible. I'd rather have that than a bunch of people in Obama's cabinet that have never spent a minute making a payroll, creating a job, or a service, or inventing a product. What the hell is there about academics from the faculty lounge who don't know what they're talking about other than theoretically. Why not have a bunch of people who have succeeded wildly, sharing what they know, implementing what they know nationwide? I would much rather have that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Talking, Creating

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• 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.

  Noam Chomsky

  America, Students, Nazi

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion about Harvard, and indeed the school's president, James Conant, did block Jewish faculty. He was the one who prevented European Jews from being admitted to the chemistry department - his field - and also had pretty good relations with the Nazis.

  Noam Chomsky

  Block, Book, School

  Source: thehumanist.com

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