Students Quotes

In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.

I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.

It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good student.

The easiest method of acquiring the habit of scholarship is through acquiring the ability to express oneself clearly in discussing and disputing scholarly problems. This is what clarifies their import and makes them understandable. Some students spend most of their lives attending scholarly sessions. Still, one finds them silent. They do not talk and do not discuss matters. More than is necessary, they are concerned with memorizing. Thus, they do not obtain much of a habit in the practice of scholarship and scholarly instruction.

What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.

Instead of bailing out Wall Street for the fourth time.. let's bail out the students.

In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.

We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own!

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

Every student has the ability to be a successful learner.

Students from the same teacher will differ in their skills

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

If we expect students to be winners and expect them to do well, they will rise to the occasion.

The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

I allowed myself to be bullied because I was scared and didn't know how to defend myself. I was bullied until I prevented a new student from being bullied. By standing up for him, I learned to stand up for myself.

Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance

The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

...education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time......that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power.

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .

Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.

Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing.

The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.

A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.

You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.

It's evolution, man. Eventually the student becomes the teacher.

The central job of schools is to maximize the capacity of each students.

I wasn’t a good student, and even now I never say that I am better than anybody, but I know I love Jiu Jitsu more than anybody. I love the energy and that it gets deeper the more you study.

The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Derek Bok's most recent book, Our Underachieving Colleges, is worth scrutinizing. . . . Bok is . . . on solid ground in pointing out that our colleges underachieve in preparing students for citizenship.

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on!

Wise teachers create an environment that encourages students to teach themselves

There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.

‎"A humble and prayerful person will find a thousand things in the Bible, which the proud student will utterly fail to discern." ~ J.C. Ryle

Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles.

I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.

If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.

Teachers learn from their students' discussions

I found my student of the year, and now Tata Nano is searching for India's student of the year

There's no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.

I wanna try and stay a student for life.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.