#student

I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come. ↗

— John Green

#believer #big #big believer #classics #cold

We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

#democratic #doing #example #expose #free

I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#being #class #directly #each #i

I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#easy #gay #i #interesting #last

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#bishop #elizabeth #francisco #i #imprisoned

Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them. ↗

— David Horowitz

#instead #professors #students #them #these

When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves. ↗

— David Horowitz

#left #produce #right #schools #students

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#education #expert #horizons #inflame #intellects

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#alumni #athletics #campus #faculty #major

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions. ↗

— Bob Inglis

#deficit #deficit reduction #i #over #package