In an effort to convince students otherwise, Mr. Andersen's essay at acm.org/ubiquity points out that taking high school math will "make you smarter."
But many also recognized that the biggest challenge was to convince students that they would be working in a good environment.
As soon as you convince students that they want to come to school, they'll learn.
The first day in school he finds that just convincing older students, faculty and the admin personnel is a humorous task.
He is working to convince medical students of the need to continue providing abortions.
As ambassador he tried, without overwhelming success, to convince radical Iranian students the at they should support rather than demonstrate against the Shah.
It seems that Willets is trying to convince students that when they don't get jobs it's the lecturers and the universities who are at fault.
He attempted to convince students of the value of history in their daily lives and the unique information available through historical research.
Cheap web textbooks sound great, but Flat World first needs to convince authors, faculty, and students of the new model's benefits.
The aim was often to convince fellow students (and me) of the force of their own political perspective.