If I'm elected President, I will make sure that you won't have too much homework.
A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and the third lacks both preparation and ability. Such are the onera of a mathematical profession.
"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.
I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.
School did stress me out, like it does for a lot of young people. I didn't like having to do work that I didn't care about.
A student under my care owes his first allegiance to himself and not to my specialty; and must not be burdened with my work as if he followed no other and had contracted no obligation under heaven but that of satisfying my requirements.
All the time worrying about pushing the children and getting them to be mathematically literate and all that stuff. It's terribly hard on the kids. It's also hard on the teachers. And I think it's totally useless.
This college would probably have the same problem as the last one did." I frowned, "What's that?" "Homework.
