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Graduate Students Quotes

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students Picture Quote #1

My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students Picture Quote #1

I used to tell my graduate students at Stanford, ‘Don’t worry about what job you have to pick because your job picks you. Let your job pick you. Find something you are passionate about. Then when you are passionate, be persistent. Just keep doing it for a while because progress is always hard work. It never rests in ideas.’ Picture Quote #1

We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they’re going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans Picture Quote #1

Leaders in China and India realize that science and technology lead to success and wealth. But many countries in the West graduate students into the unemployment line by teaching skills that were necessary to live in 1950 Picture Quote #1

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn’t work or the measurements look strange Picture Quote #1

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At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work Picture Quote #1

In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart Picture Quote #1

Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and I Have a Dream. And that’s it! Picture Quote #1

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today’s kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years Picture Quote #1

The thing that’s depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don’t know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they’ve never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don’t know the difference between ‘lie’ and ‘lay,’ let alone ‘its’ and ‘it’s.’ And they’re in graduate school! Picture Quote #1

Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages are frequently taught by untrained graduate students and underpaid adjunct teachers Picture Quote #1

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The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college Picture Quote #1

I’ve been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I’m excited to share what I’ve learned with graduate students at SNHU. I’m just as excited for what I’ll learn from them Picture Quote #1

American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone Picture Quote #1

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens Picture Quote #1

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them Picture Quote #1

I have graduate students who have developed this ability to love and want to perfect it. Those are the students I spend a lot of time with because at this time they need that Picture Quote #1

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Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn’t know how to do those things by doing it for me. Things that I can’t do myself, my graduate students should be doing Picture Quote #1

I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students relying on them, because of the limited perspective you tend to get from being plunked down in some particular part of the past, and the danger of not getting back in time for your orals Picture Quote #1

It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here Picture Quote #1

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn’t work or the measurements look strange Picture Quote #1

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don’t mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship Picture Quote #1

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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students. (Graduate Students Quotes) My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students. (Graduate Students Quotes) I used to tell my graduate students at Stanford, ‘Don’t worry about what job you have to pick because your job picks you. Let your job pick you. Find something you are passionate about. Then when you are passionate, be persistent. Just keep doing it for a while because progress is always hard work. It never rests in ideas.’ (Graduate Students Quotes) We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they’re going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans. (Graduate Students Quotes) Leaders in China and India realize that science and technology lead to success and wealth. But many countries in the West graduate students into the unemployment line by teaching skills that were necessary to live in 1950. (Graduate Students Quotes) I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn’t work or the measurements look strange. (Graduate Students Quotes) At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work. (Graduate Students Quotes) In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart. (Graduate Students Quotes) Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and I Have a Dream. And that’s it! (Graduate Students Quotes) If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today’s kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years. (Graduate Students Quotes) The thing that’s depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don’t know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they’ve never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don’t know the difference between ‘lie’ and ‘lay,’ let alone ‘its’ and ‘it’s.’ And they’re in graduate school! (Graduate Students Quotes) Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages are frequently taught by untrained graduate students and underpaid adjunct teachers. (Graduate Students Quotes) The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. (Graduate Students Quotes) I’ve been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I’m excited to share what I’ve learned with graduate students at SNHU. I’m just as excited for what I’ll learn from them (Graduate Students Quotes) American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone (Graduate Students Quotes) Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens (Graduate Students Quotes) My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them (Graduate Students Quotes) I have graduate students who have developed this ability to love and want to perfect it. Those are the students I spend a lot of time with because at this time they need that (Graduate Students Quotes) Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn’t know how to do those things by doing it for me. Things that I can’t do myself, my graduate students should be doing (Graduate Students Quotes) I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students relying on them, because of the limited perspective you tend to get from being plunked down in some particular part of the past, and the danger of not getting back in time for your orals (Graduate Students Quotes) It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here (Graduate Students Quotes) I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn’t work or the measurements look strange (Graduate Students Quotes) You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don’t mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship (Graduate Students Quotes)