Dan Rosensweig Quotes

My life has been quite interesting professionally.

I think that there is a sharp contrast for most people between life at university, where they meet lots of people, and the moment when they enter the workforce, when they basically no longer meet anyone. Life becomes dull. So as a result people get married to have a personal life. I could elaborate but I think everyone understands.

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.

Being able to access that Stanford alumni network was huge - I actually interned at PayPal while I was at Stanford and learned a lot. Being in that environment and learning about it as a student was really fun.

My family and school life are important to me.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.

Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets.

Over the years, I've worked with just about everybody.

It is not hard for me to remember when I was in college. I loved many things about college life: I loved learning. I loved the comradery. And I loved football.

I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something.

We have placed more emphasis on grades and school ranking than on genuine education.

Professors gravitate to the bright, well-prepared students. They are easier to teach, and they appear to profit most from instruction, which may simply mean they are most like the professors. But in the increasing pluralism and decreasing professionalism of colleges and universities in the next decades, the master teacher is likely to be the one who can provide context for many kinds of students.

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. Their relevance to a future usefulness need not be obvious. It is a difficult assignment. The conditions the teacher arranges must be powerful enough to compete with those under which the student tends to behave in distracting ways.

The American university is an educational department store.

Students Are Not Widgets. Schools Are Not Factories.

I think everyone needs to focus on the quality of the undergraduate experience.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

Education is, in the end, about individual interactions and about learning.

I went to Parsons, and I interned with Ronen when I was at Parsons. We started our own company since then.

I'm an actor doing a job, but I'm also living a life.

I love that UNLV is a big-little school, that you can still have access and support as a student.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

My LinkedIn page looks crazy.

There are certain people throughout my career I've earmarked as smart people I would like to work with. And I'm not just talking about advertising people.