Eula Biss Quotes

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

I go to the lab and in order to interact with my postdoctoral students and try to see if I can shape them to not copy but to ask questions and to think. We have to have a little dialogue because you don't pretend to be the fountain of all wisdom.

People should debate. They shouldn't be afraid to talk. You should listen to what other people think and how they make decisions. There should be an exchange of ideas and opinions because that's how we learn.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

I never believed the anchorman should be the know-it-all. And I try to communicate that to the audience. While I have some knowledge from my years of experience, what I want to do is walk you through this because we're all walking through this together.

I go around the room and ask people, 'What do you think?'

I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.

In an undergraduate business environment, the best learning experience is the interaction students have with each other. They need to learn from each other as much as from professors and lectures and other teaching tools.

It's good to talk to people and get ideas.

I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

You ask me a question. I have a blank mind. You ask me a question, and the question is informed, and you're interested, and now my mind starts popping. That's what conversation is. That's what communicating is.

I want to encourage open conversation, which allows people to discuss issues and learn from each other.

I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.

Society is indeed better off when we share knowledge with one another and have open debates about the issues in the public arena, with the hands and motives of the players identified.

I found that I can never know enough, and that many times the best form of education is through communication.

Learning and the exchange of ideas is dramatic.

It's helpful to get feedback on your work, and I think you learn a lot from reading other people's work and giving them feedback.

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

I believe in the power of ideas. I believe in the power of sharing knowledge.

I don't have all the answers. I'm just supposed to present what I think is an issue and have dialogue start.

As a professional, you pick up ideas from your colleagues and the orchestras you work with, while coming up with mutual interpretations in very short periods of time.

I have been lucky to find very good collaborators who have taught me a lot, have introduced me to several new fields of mathematics, or have shown me new insights.