Students Quotes - Page 39

• I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips.

  Karen Russell

  World, Immersion, Company

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• I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all the arts combined. Students are always asking me for advice, and I tell them that they have to be enthusiastic, because it's hard work. The only way to enjoy it is to be totally immersed. If you don't get involved on that level, it could be a very miserable job. I only have one regret about my career: I'm sorry that we are not making silent movies any more. That is the purest art form I can imagine.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Movie, Music, Art

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• College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.

  Susan Cain

  College, Groups, Study

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.81, Broadway Books

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• The art school party in Liverpool, in a flat in the students' accomdation, was the first all night party I ever went to...I puked up next morning. Cynthia was there, and I remember saying drunkenly to her 'I wish I had a nice girl like you'

  George Harrison

  Girl, Art, Morning

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• Somehow, talking to young students brings you back to reality - it should, anyway.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Reality, Talking, Should

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• Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Dream, Teaching, People

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• In I'm Not A Racist, But..., Lawrence Blum offers answers for our time about what race is, who is a racist, and ways for people to talk about the racialized features of our society without falling into name-calling or defensiveness. With exemplary moral and analytic clarity, Blum offers educators, students, lawyers, judges, leaders, and citizens tools for building a nation of equality, comity, and respect for each person.

  Martha Minow

  Fall, Race, Names

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• We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.

  Dan Ariely

  Data, Decision, Tools

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• The trend of offering individualized education plans, curricula, and lessons is going to help students tremendously. “Teaching to the middle” is one of the saddest concepts I've ever heard about.

  Mike Lee

  Teaching, Offering, Lessons

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• 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.

  Dennis Prager

  College, Race, White

  Dennis Prager (2015). “Dennis Prager: Volume I”, p.59, Creators Publishing

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• Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  White, Trying, Dresses

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.406, Harvard University Press

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• I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. My wife studied in Britain too and both of us have many friends there.

  Asif Ali Zardari

  Adversity, Wife, Parks

  Interview with Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2000.

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• Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.

  Sugata Mitra

  Imagination, Memorization, Resourcefulness

  "We Need Schools... Not Factories" by Sugata Mitra, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say that I had a few extraordinary English teachers in high school whom I still credit for their guidance.

  Julia Glass

  Teacher, Book, School

  "Washington Post Magazine: Real Life". Online chat, www.washingtonpost.com. July 14, 2008.

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• Solidarity is learned through 'contact' rather than 'concepts.' Students in the course of their formation, must let the gritty reality of this world into their lives, so they can learn to feel it, think about it critically, respond to its suffering and engage it constructively. They should learn to perceive, think, judge, choose and act for the rights of others, especially the disadvantaged and the oppressed.

  Peter Hans Kolvenbach

  Reality, Thinking, Rights

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• I am acting at university, and I have really enjoyed doing student drama.

  Anna Popplewell

  Drama, Acting, University

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• Negativity sells. I have been labelled a rebel. If I had been one, would I have got married at 23? Would I have been a straight A student?

  Sania Mirza

  Negativity, Rebel, Married

  "Successful People Are Targeted; I’m More Careful Now: Sania Mirza". Interview with Sharmistha Chaudhuri, www.hindustantimes.com. November 24, 2013.

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• Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."

  David Harsanyi

  Children, Math, Thinking

  "No, Arne Duncan, ‘White Suburban Moms’ Aren’t The Problem. (But you might be)". thefederalist.com. November 19, 2013.

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• We owe every student in every neighborhood in New Jersey an equal opportunity to succeed. We know that more money, alone, is not the answer. We need to redefine success, and how we pursue that success, by the outcomes obtained by students.

  Thomas Kean, Jr.

  Opportunity, Needs, Answers

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• Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else.

  Alex Tabarrok

  College, Focus, Magic

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• College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don't help them very much in the job market. It also has been oversold to the taxpayers, who foot the bill for subsidies that do nothing to encourage innovation and economic growth.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Jobs, College, Feet

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• Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.

  Daphne Koller

  Teaching, School, College

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• If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.

  Daphne Koller

  Jobs, Class, Skills

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• A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is embraced in advertising, self-help books, and much more. . . . Yamada, who is both a scholar of Buddhism and a student of archery, offers refreshing insight into Western stereotypes of Japan and Japanese culture, and how these are received in Japan.

  Alexander Gardner

  Religious, Book, Buddhism

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• Upon its debut, The Room was a spectacular bomb, pulling in all of $1,800 during its initial two-week Los Angeles run. It wasn't until the last weekend of the film's short release that the seeds of its eventual cultural salvation were planted. While passing a movie theater, two young film students named Michael Rousselet and Scott Gairdner noticed a sign on the ticket booth that read: NO REFUNDS. Below the sign was this blurb from a review: “Watching this film is like getting stabbed in the head.” They were sold.

  Greg Sestero

  Running, Weekend, Two

  Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell (2014). “The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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