[After graduation, he encourages students to pursue their interests, despite external temptations.] Find what you really love, ... Don't go just for the social prestige or the money. Not that money isn't important, but the people who are doing things they really love are much happier. |
[Intimidated, Sternberg took his professor's advice and enrolled in an introductory applied mathematics class, yet that too proved difficult.] I failed the midterm and the professor recommended that I drop the class, ... So I did. |
[Sternberg returned to his original goal of majoring in psychology, and turned out to be very competent in the higher-level courses.] I'm more of a creative learner, ... I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing all of that material in the introductory courses. |
[The new dean urges students not to sacrifice friends for studies.] There's a tendency for students to say, 'Right now I need to pay attention to my work,' and so they blow off building personal relationships, ... Don't do that - finding the time will never get any easier, and that is a really important part of life. |
A principal in Oregon was having problems with some girls in the school. The girls had just started to wear lipstick and were pressing their lips against the mirror. After a few weeks, when the culprits were caught, the principal wanted to teach them a lesson, so the custodian showed them what he had to do to clean the lipstick. He dipped the sponge into the toilet and proceeded to wipe the mirror. Needless to say, the girls never pressed their lips against that mirror again. |
capitalize on their strengths, but also to correct and compensate for their weaknesses. |
develop leaders of the next generation, and not necessarily CEOs and presidents. |
I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology, |
If Tufts doesn't work out, my safety is to go back to Yale, where I used to teach. |
Leadership and civic engagement are an important part of the Tufts education, ... People often get themselves into power who are very bright, but not necessarily wise, and maybe even foolish. |
Our goal is to get better students and send a message that these things really matter. The great students will get in, anyway. This is about the middle. |
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. |
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. |
Some students are more conventional learners ... [while] some are more practical learners. I'd like to work with faculty and students in order to enhance the teaching and learning experience. |
Take, for example, some of the people at Enron, ... It should be that you are developing your leadership skills throughout your education. |