Although there are some enormously gifted lecturers and preachers who do create community with oratory, I like to do anything I can to engage my students with each other, with me, and with the subject. And the subject, I think, always has to take prominence.
I don't ask my students to have studied film or any education in general. What I ask them is to come and sit and tell me a story, and the way they choose it and tell it, for me, the best criteria for whether they are right for making films. There's nothing more important than being able to tell your story orally.
I couldn't even speak in front of a group of students when I was in high school. I could barely do that sort of thing. But once I started doing the "YES!" chant down to the ring and people would do it with me, it allowed me to feel more comfortable.
The other way that you democratize the food movement is through the public school system. If you can pay enough for the school lunch system so that it can actually be cooked and not just microwaved, so that these schools can buy local food, fresh food, because right now it's all frozen and processed, you will improve the health of the students, you will improve the health of the local economy, and you will have better performing students.
The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.
Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.
I guess it's the age group of students; You are questioning life. Then there are those who actually see their problems reflected in it.
Be a learner first, a master second, and a student always.
Escuela Caribe preyed upon parents' fears of secular culture to recruit students. Parents could send their kids to a place where they'd be sheltered from evil secular influences - sex, drugs, alcohol, and a questioning mentality. A place where children would be forced to become good little clones of their parents.
Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.
I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.
Students, in particular, now find themselves in a world in which heightened expectations have been replaced by dashed hopes.
John von Neumann was the only student I was ever afraid of.
Teachers learn from their students' discussions
Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.
They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.
The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.