Early episodes told the story of student Kenneth Barlow ( William Roache ), who had won a place at university and thus found his background something of an embarrassment.

Those in the control condition were led to believe that it was penned by another student ; those in the treatment condition were told it was written by a famous academic.

Pai-chang Huai-hai told a student who was grappling with difficult portions of suttas, " Take up words in order to manifest meaning and you'll obtain ' meaning '.

Rodriguez felt that he had been told by God that Claver was to spend his life in service in the colonies of New Spain, and he frequently urged the young student to accept that calling.

* Teacher – Student-where the student dresses for the part and must do as he / she is told, or is punished

He did not mention the incident for more than a year until, in 1859 and a student at Oxford University, he told the story to John Conington, the Latin professor.

Donald Davidson told that in his student years, " quotation was usually introduced as a somewhat shady device, and the introduction was accompanied by a stern sermon on the sin of confusing the use and mention of expressions ".

One of his fellow students was RAF Sgt Jack Morton, who told a humorous anecdote while he and his fellow student Rennie were in the same class: " At the end of our primary course we were posted to a Basic Flying School at Cochran Field, Macon, Georgia.

When asked why he has little to say during hearings of the court, he told a high school student that the ridicule he received for his Gullah speech as a young man caused him to develop the habit of listening rather than speaking in public.

According to a former student, Stephen Butterfield, " Trungpa told us that if we ever tried to leave the Vajrayana, we would suffer unbearable, subtle, continuous anguish, and disasters would pursue us like furies " Other Vajrayana teachers, as well, also warn their students about the dangers of the esoteric path.

Li Ching was then dismissed as his student, after being given a small pill and being told that he would work hard enough to become one of the Immortals himself.

" He told a stewardess he had briefly dated that he was also a Harvard law student, and she introduced him to a lawyer friend.

The sophomore theatre arts major was told by officials that they don't approve of his " gay lifestyle " and, although he was a dean's list student, his grades were all downgraded to " F ".

John Trumbull told Dunlap that in 1771, being then a student at Harvard College, he called on Copley, who " was dressed on the occasion in a suit of crimson velvet with gold buttons, and the elegance displayed by Copley in his style of living, added to his high repute as an artist, made a permanent impression on Trumbull in favor of the life of a painter.

At one point in the novel Howard's promiscuity gets him into trouble when he is told that he might be sacked for " gross moral turpitude " ( which he defines to a female student of his as " raping large numbers of nuns "), but he shrugs off this accusation as being based on " a very vague concept, especially these days ".

Like in experiments made by Solomon Asch ( 1951-1956 ) about conformity using groups of college student, it was found that after the task was over, some participants told the experimenter that they felt the group was wrong but went along avoid making waves and suffering possible rejections.

Speight's partner, Torika Rawlinson, told the student newspaper Wansolwara that the original intention had been to execute members of the deposed government the night before the coup actually took place.

For example, students are often given literature lessons at the beginning of the learning experience, when it is the sum of events, making the subject relevant for the end of learning ; This gives the student time to shape his or her own views before being told how history or some one else has seen something.

In May 2007, Cowen told Jason O ' Toole of Hot Press that, as a student, " I would say there were a couple of occasions when marijuana was passed around – and, unlike President Clinton, I did inhale.

After she had spoken to some of them, though, one student told the press that " she wanted to listen.

Hofmann was never allowed to bring the same composition twice, as Rubinstein said as a teacher he would probably forget what he told the student during the previous lesson.

In 1969, Duntroon was the centre of an inquiry after Gerry Walsh, a member of the academic staff, revealed details of hazing told to him by a student at the college.

In 2008, a student at the London school reportedly pulled out a chef's knife and threatened to kill himself after being told that he'd failed his Basic Cuisine exam.

As Bob Ross Incorporated grew into a $ 15 million a year business, Alexander told the New York Times that he felt betrayed by his former student: " He betrayed me.

He commented -- thoughtfully, a reporter told us -- that it was `` not too important for the individual how he ends up ''.

John Altschuler, formerly a writer for King of the Hill, told a Rolling Stone reporter that he saw signs that Mike Judge was thinking of reviving Beavis and Butt-Head.

In April 2008 Stephen Jones told a reporter, " I don't think I have a political bone in my body.

" I don't see it as a bad thing for a park ," the assigned National Park Service biologist told a reporter for Smithsonian Magazine ( March 2006 ).

" Not able to speak English, her mother translated as she told a reporter her goal was to be a chess professional.

In 1937, Riefenstahl told a reporter for the Detroit News: " To me, Hitler is the greatest man who ever lived.

When Mbeki finally was able to return home to South Africa and was reunited with his own father, the elder Mbeki told a reporter, " You must remember that Thabo Mbeki is no longer my son.

Additionally, before he was captured, Sheikh Mohammed, along with bin al-Shibh, told an Al Jazeera reporter ( who was taken blindfolded to his hideout ) back in 2002 that the fourth target was in fact the Capitol Building.

In 2007 he told a reporter that he was giving up music for good to focus on his career as a painter.

Norman Fowler, then a reporter for The Times, interviewed Powell during the election and asked him what the biggest issue was: " I expected to be told something about the cost of living but not a bit of it.

After Mick Dumke, a reporter for the Chicago Reader, questioned the effectiveness of the city's handgun ban, Daley picked up a rifle with a bayonet from a table of confiscated weapons and told him, " If I put this up your butt, you'll find out how effective it is.

'" He told American reporter Webb Miller, " ideas influenced me greatly.

Universal scrambled to appear responsive: a spokesman told a UCLA Daily Bruin reporter that the studio was " delighted " by the interest, and that " we have negotiated with the heirs of the writers ( Morrie Ryskind and George S. Kaufman ), but they were asking much more than we wanted to spend.

" He told a reporter from The New York World, " Thorpe is the greatest athlete that ever lived.

" We'll let the e-mail speak for itself ," reporter John Chase told the AP.

Producer William Alland was attending a dinner party during the filming of Citizen Kane ( in which he played the reporter Thompson ) in 1941 when Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa told him about the myth of a race of half-fish, half-human creatures in the Amazon river.

Chaplin was dismissive about " talkies " and told a reporter that he'd " give the talkies three years, that's all.

Clifford, who prided himself on decades of meticulously ethical conduct, summed his predicament up when he sadly told a reporter from The New York Times, " I have a choice of either seeming stupid or venal.

On 17 January 1991 Irving told a reporter from the Jewish Chronicle that " The Jews are very foolish not to abandon the gas chamber theory while they still have time ".

She once told a reporter that she had thrown up in every toilet in Rockefeller Center.

It is based on the true story of Crystal Lee Sutton ( 1940 – 2009 ), which was told in the 1975 book Crystal Lee, a Woman of Inheritance by New York Times reporter Henry P. Leifermann.

* A second version, as told by Dominic Bellissimo ( Frank and Teressa's son ) to The New Yorker reporter Calvin Trillin in 1980, stated: " It was Friday night in the bar and since people were buying a lot of drinks he wanted to do something nice for them at midnight when the mostly Catholic patrons would be able to eat meat again.

According to the Jacobs biography, Gaines professed himself an atheist since age 12 and once told a reporter that his was probably the only home in America in which the children were brought up to believe in Santa Claus but not in God.

In 2003, Queen Silvia told a Swedish reporter that she and the royal family would like to be more open to contact with magazines and newspapers but that false articles about the family's lives – including photograph montages purported to show the Crown Princess and Princess Madeleine with their " secret " babies, published in the German magazine " Frau mit Herz " – had made them wary.