When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready… The teacher will Disappear.

When asked what kind of grad student Lynn Marulis takes: ‘I never take a straight A student. A real scientist tends to be critical, and somewhere along the line, they had to rebel against their...

It was Monday morning. Swaminathan was reluctant to open his eyes. he considered Monday specially unpleasant in the calendar. After the delicious freedom of Saturday and Sunday, it was difficult to get into the Monday...

Do not seek victory, for victory in itself will not serve you. Seek to understand what made the victory possible.

I can see myself in my teacher’s eyes. I look like a pupil.

And if she liked and trusted the person who asked, she would add that yes, it was kind of a lot to deal with: her outward affect was bright and capable, and that was no...

The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea and they hold on to it until it becomes dead; they want to flatter themselves that they know...

I’m a student of life. My own. So I’m also my own teacher.

If you say you want to automate cars and save people’s lives, the skills you need for that aren’t taught in any particular discipline. I know – I was interested in working on automating cars...

What a silly thing love is!’ said the student as he walked away. ‘It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things...

a hundred failures mean a thousand successes

Isn’t that better?

Beethoven said that it’s better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be wrong or to embarrass yourself; we are all students in this life, and...

Be a bright student of the teacher called Life.

I don’t care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook.

Regarding the creative: never assume you’re the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you’re masterful.

Needless to say, that meant that the Braekbills student body was quite the psychological menagerie. Carrying that much onboard cognitive processing power had a way of distorting your personality. And to actually want to work...

Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.

You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.

John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.

I touched his hand, carefully. Not too intimate, but not some half-assed there-there pat, either. Would he understand? Usually the thought process for a seventeen-year-old boy went girl touching me>omg>boner.

Perhaps I occasionally sought to give, or inadvertently gave, to the student a sense of battle on the intellectual battlefield. If all you do is to give them a faultless and complete and uninhabited architectural...

The stars glittered in the sky and as the number of people at the party grew there were merging conversations and laughter and bodies moving in outlines around the kegs of beer in a curtsy...

I was a straight-A student. But I was a bad lad.

The Strandbeest is a self-replicating meme, a brain virus. It infects the student’s brain. In fact, the Strandbeest abuse students for their reproduction. For two years, this reproduction fell into a flow acceleration. Now, 3D...

I am a student of forgiveness and so far I am failing miserably the saving grace is that I will not quit.

Love isn’t stackable and interlocking, like boxes or Legos. Love is like a one-legged man standing on a three-legged chair that is placed on top of a two-legged piano. I should know, because I’m the...

Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student.

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.

True education kindles the student’s mind but teaching fills the mind with information.

Part of me always longed to do just one more film and see what Luke would be like now that he’s on the level of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the student having become the master. But it...

I came with many knots in my heart,like the magician’s rope.You undid them all at once.I see now the splendor of the studentand that of the teacher’s art.Love and this body sit inside your presence,one...

As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.

I went to school to be a comedian. I was always cracking jokes in class. And after they were cracked, the teacher would try to put them back together.

Always maintain the attitude of a student. When a person thinks they have finished learning, that is when bitterness and disappointment can set in, as that person will wake up everyday wondering when someone is...

I’ve come to learn, and to establish mine in that same place i come from. Staying in my school place makes me always a student.

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

Student engagement is the product of motivation and active learning. It is a product rather than a sum because it will not occur if either element is missing.

How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who you are and what is motivating your life.

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.

The more you know the more you need to learn.

Narcissus’s thoughts were far more occupied with Goldmund than Goldmund imagined. He wanted the bright boy as a friend. He sensed in him his opposite, his complement; he would have liked to adopt, lead, enlighten,...

The question is not “can you wear your father’s shoes?”. The question is “can you walk in your father’s shoes?”. It is one thing having a mentor and it is another thing to become like...

The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to ‘improving the brain’ that a student brings to the classroom.

Patience is my virtue, but only in Math, Daddy,” – Ashley

In my illustrious career as a university student, I turned in over 100 papers so that one day, in the end, I got 1 paper in return.

He who teaches the Bible is never a scholar; he is always a student.

As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly, and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to ‘Non-Cooperative Games,’ also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebraic...