The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music, and to paint when I feel like it.
I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.
I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.
I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.
Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.
Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.