Some of us Teachers who consider ourselves to be smarter than our students will realise how worthless we are if we ever enter a classroom and find it devoid of students. Without students we are...

As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.

That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the street’s burn.

Great teachers are great mentors.

The professor is not merely an information dispensing machine, but a skilled navigator of a complex landscape.

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.