I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I’m lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me. — Ann Bancroft Tags: #Struggle, #Student, #Lucky, #AnnBancroft, #American,...
It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, rubbing elbows with the likes of Aldous Huxley and T.E. Lawrence, before World War I shattered everything forever. — Kevin Kwan Tags: #War, #Moment, #Student,...
Americans in particular are myopic. They’re not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That’s what I did. I went to Indonesia. — Julie Taymor Tags: #Travel,...
Adele Adkins’ retro-soul debut, ’19’, was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules....
I have always believed that 98% of a student’s progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher. — John Philip Sousa Tags: #Progress, #Student, #Believed, #JohnPhilipSousa, #American, #MusicianMini who’s who: John Philip Sousa : American...
