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"As I continue to teach, I have more to offer my students, and as I continue to teach, I have more to learn from my students. I do know some writers who feel very drained when they leave the classroom, and for me this would be a sign that maybe it's time to take a break or refocus because I always leave the classroom even more excited than I was when I walked in."
"I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer."
"All of which suggested literary translation, and Korean seemed a good bet - barely anything available in English, yet it was a modern, developed country, so the work had to be out there, plus the rarity would make it both easier to secure a student grant and more of a niche when it came to work."
"I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major."
"I was a good student when I was a kid, and I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got A's."
"Research, as the college student will come to know it, is relatively thorough investigation, primarily in libraries, of a properly limited topic, and presentation of the results of this investigation in a carefully organized and documented paper of some length."
"Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student."
"I went to school to be a psychiatrist. That's where I was going until I had a teacher-student conference with one of my teachers and there were film school pamphlets, and he said, "You don't belong here. Get out. Go to film school.""
"I'm always trying to ask myself both "Who am I as an individual?" and "What are the cultural forces that have made me the person that I am?" How can I understand myself as a cultural creature as well as an individual? I'm really obsessed with that question, and always asking my students to consider it."
"Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education."
"I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags."
"I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed."
"When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up"
"Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?"
"The student is to read history actively and not passively."
"The secret of success in education is respecting the students."
"Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!"
"The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians"
"The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives."
"Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially."
