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
Business schools need to address students on a human being level, not as cogs in the machine to supply fresh talent to big companies. – Srikumar Rao
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure. – Sidney Hook
Twenty percent of students in Israel’s schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them. – Yair Lapid
Open rehearsals reach people who might not otherwise hear the Philharmonic – people on fixed incomes, people who can’t move easily at night, students. – Zubin Mehta
Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn’t have money to do anything. – Santiago Durango
Learning isn’t meant to be confined to a box, and students virtually never ‘master’ a topic simply by taking a class. – Thomas Frey
Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: ‘The poem’s sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.’ – Terry Eagleton
There is a social stigma attached to ambulance services, mostly because ambulances in India are often used as hearses for carrying the dead rather than transporting patients. We made presentations to graduating students at various healthcare institutes, trying to debunk this myth. – Shaffi Mather
Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that’s going to expand. – Steven Pinker
There’s a reason that students don’t grade their own papers. There’s a reason defendants don’t sentence themselves. And there’s the reason the State Department doesn’t get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress’s job. – Trey Gowdy
I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they’d read or understood. – Walter Kirn
Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they’ve purchased. Failure doesn’t enter into anyone’s calculations. – Sarah Churchwell
The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America. – Spencer Abraham