#student

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#books #bunch #continental #crap #cycle

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me. ↗

— Ann Bancroft

#had #i #lousy #lucky #me

If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#had #i #immediately #me #out

And, in the case of schools, or anything else, if you have something that is forcing you to do better than you did the day before, it makes you look forward and it makes you think in a way that's going to make the product better, which is the students and the education. ↗

— Craig Benson

#before #better #case #day #did

It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen. ↗

— William Bernbach

#communicator #concerned #gets #his #how

General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#close #custer #general #observer #personal

And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League. ↗

— Donald Judd

#i #jersey #league #moved #new

The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#city #descriptions #everybody #grandmother #identified

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy? ↗

— Allan Bloom

#become #did #easy #every #high-school

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#education #enable #find #learning #might