It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor. In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.
One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!
I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.
Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel.
I remember, when I was in college, an anonymous donor gave Stanford students a year of 'Yahoo Music Engine'.
Elite private-school educations leave students unprepared for a standardized test with which their public school counterparts are innately familiar.
Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.
A rational system and order for educational administration should be established on the principle of ensuring smooth progress of teaching and scientific research by teachers and researchers, and of edification of students.
Ideally, schools should be supportive environments for students. Unfortunately, zero-tolerance policies tend to funnel vulnerable students out of schools and into prisons, low-income jobs, and poverty.
Military leaders, many of whom were students of counterinsurgency, recognized the dangers of an incremental escalation and the historical lesson that 'trailing' an insurgency typically condemned counterinsurgents to failure.
I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy - witness the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser, whose graduate students came forward to say he'd been faking evidence for years.
My fondest part of college was the interaction and everything I did with my fellow students.
I was studying with Peter Carey, Colum McCann; but also, my fellow students were really critical readers for me.
I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
I had no interest at all in opera or singing. I saw my fellow students struggling with their scores, laboring to memorize operatic roles, and I thought, 'That's not for me!'
It's one thing to make financial aid available to students so they can attend college. It's another thing to design forms that students can actually fill out.
Financial Aid Office (FAO) administrators are scrambling to educate students on repaying loans, but a disparity in knowledge persists.
