My Students Quotes

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

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

I was a disinterested student.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

...the exchange of students...should be vastly expanded...Information and education are powerful forces in support of peace. Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace.

Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families.

There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.

A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.

I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me.

BE A STUDENT BY STAYING OPEN AND WILLING TO LEARN FROM EVERYONE AND ANYONE.

We're trying to increase the efficiency of students to learn from current instruction.

When I taught, all my best students were women.

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

What could be more interesting to students than their own behavior and that of others?

And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.

While most students were trying to draw one beautiful finished piece, I would be in the background drawing dozens of studies at different angles to use later.

Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.

It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about.

Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves.

Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.

Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.

By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.

I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends.

I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.

Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.

Why don't you lay the footpaths where the students want to walk?

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

As students I am sure you have several dreams. If you are determined to move ahead nothing can stop you. Our youth are talented.

How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.

I was a good student in the subjects that I wanted to be good in. The curriculum in my section was excellent.

The rule should be HS students should be allowed to pursue their career

[Students] often have a "We can figure this out - don't just tell us" attitude. In that way, they can be less patient with "traditional" approaches to teaching.

We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human being.

The library is…a university of the people, from which the students are never graduated.

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.

Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

What if we were to take seriously the possibility that our students have a rich and authoritative inner life and tried to nourish it rather than negate it?

It's just disgusting that in this society, the majority of students in art school are women, but they amount to less than 30% of what is shown in museums. That has not changed radically.

The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.

Buildings are tools to reach people, raise disciples, reach students, train up our kids, heal marriages and families and worship God.

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.