My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.
If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.
Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple societies, one is astonished by how such a notion can continue to be taught to students.
A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.
I teach a graduate seminar called "Theorizing Improvisation" that is pretty interdisciplinary, but really makes students deal with black studies seriously. A lot of authors of color, a lot of women of color - those become central to the intellectual trajectory. It considers music, but it also considers areas of thought that might seem unrelated to music. That's partly because we're expanding the notion of what music is beyond objects, beyond scores, beyond things.
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
The only person who can fix education is the student.
[A]s a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian drifter [a supporter of the theory of continental drift]. [. . . ] Today [. . . ] my own students would dismiss with even more derision anyone who denied the evident truth of continental drift a prophetic madman is at least amusing; a superannuated fuddy-duddy is merely pitiful.
Social media allows people to connect. So instead of reading about the Arab Spring, I can have students following along, in real-time, with what is happening.
"A humble and prayerful person will find a thousand things in the Bible, which the proud student will utterly fail to discern. " ~ J. C. Ryle
Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.
Before I can effectively discipline students, I have to earn their friendship and respect.
You can't lift people out of poverty simply by tweaking the tax system, or by raising the minimum wage by a few cents, or by reducing student debt slightly. These might be necessary components of a larger anti-poverty program, but you have to accept they are pieces of a much larger puzzle.
While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.
As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.
This much I'm sure of. Chances for winning = 1 - (# of math students playing) (# of math students cheering). That's a fraction.
The college students come out and they’re doing something for the first time, so by definition it’s dramatic for the most part, but most people don’t jump out of the airplane or sign up to become a French clown. That’s not the move they’re mostly making. They’re mostly making things a little bit better where they are and so to make things a little better where you are, you really got to get underneath what’s bugging you, what is working for you.
I also have my backpack of the tried-and-true, and because it is new to [my students], it becomes fresh to me again as well.
Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.
