#students

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#bed #best #brought #certain #experience

Don’t you know that’s what college is about...students spending years gathering useless information they’ll never use again, going hopelessly into debt, just so they feel smarter than the rest of their family? I mean, that’s why I worked so hard to get here, anyway. ↗

— A.L. Jackson

#students #family

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#students #teacher #teaching #life

I went to interview some of these early Jewish colonial zealots—written off in those days as mere 'fringe' elements—and found that they called themselves Gush Emunim or—it sounded just as bad in English—'The Bloc of the Faithful.' Why not just say 'Party of God' and have done with it? At least they didn't have the nerve to say that they stole other people's land because their own home in Poland or Belarus had been taken from them. They said they took the land because god had given it to them from time immemorial. In the noisome town of Hebron, where all of life is focused on a supposedly sacred boneyard in a dank local cave, one of the world's less pretty sights is that of supposed yeshivah students toting submachine guns and humbling the Arab inhabitants. When I asked one of these charmers where he got his legal authority to be a squatter, he flung his hand, index finger outstretched, toward the sky. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#belarus #colonialism #god #guns #gush-emunim

Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#attracted #black #college #colleges #delaware

Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status. ↗

— Gary Locke

#college #communities #every #get #go

Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth Day in 1970, and out of that Earth Day a lot of students got involved in saving the environment, or trying to. ↗

— Pete McCloskey

#day #earth #earth day #environment #got

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. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#asian-american #been #break #into #lot

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. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#cliches #dirt #encourage #enough #far

The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago. ↗

— Robert Nelson

#art #art history #enormous #going #had