My Students Quotes

For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give them a placebo.

I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students.

Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.

I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.

As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.

I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.

...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

The issue here isn't whether every student is brainwashed, it's whether it is appropriate.

I was a disinterested student.

I think as a student I ended up liking so many different and conflicting things.

Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

This much I'm sure of. Chances for winning = 1 - (# of math students playing)/ (# of math students cheering). That's a fraction.

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers.

Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.

One may reject such proposals as something that will hurt merit but the ground reality is students from such sections do not have the same access to quality education that rich students enjoy.

I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.

Anytime students shout down a speaker who says something different, this is not good.

It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.

Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.

I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

We need teacher educators who regularly spend a great deal of time in classrooms so they have a deep understanding of where they students will teach.

Actually there's a very bad trend in some cults about how Guru's are supposed to be mean to their students, and there are some who revel in this and are abusive.

The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

It's disgraceful and embarrassing that the highest technology in a typical city high school in this country is the metal detector the students pass through at the front door.

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.

I have a very strong passion to sing and paint. I'm really a student.

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater strain it imposes.

Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.

I think the problem with Western students is they're very ambitious.

All students need to know about color is the basic color wheel and complimentary colors. There are many books on color theory; do not waste your time and money.

I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students.

Deepika asked questions like a diligent student. She talks little and saves all she has for the shot.

I don't teach my students, I provide the circumstances in which they can learn.

Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools.

Study and know that we are always a student of the craft well after we've completed any course of study... and approach the work as a servant, not a star.