My Students Quotes

The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.

Readiness is a student’s entry point relative to a particular understanding or skill.

Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

Students learn as much for a teacher as from a teacher.

Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.

I'm a student of violence because I'm a student of the human heart.

It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students who are struggling to get an education.

To increase student engagement and ownership of learning, we should give students opportunities to do meaningful work - work that makes a difference locally, nationally, and globally.

I remember being a student and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around.

Once you get your education it's going to open up so many doors for you. And the sky's the limit. So that's what I want to deliver to students.

I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn.

Students of any art, including Karate-do must never forget the cultivation of the mind and the body.

My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.

In college, [Christian students] are assaulted by secular relativism, and if we don't prepare them, they will be like lambs led to slaughter.

Every student, without exception, should be able to succeed well at something consequential.

1-2 out of every 100 students reach Black Belt and of those only 1 out of every 1,000 achieves his 2nd Dan

Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.

Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.

Let's stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student.

The business of schools is to design, create, and invent high-quality, intellectually demanding schoolwork that students find engaging.

I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.

We prepare our students for jobs and careers, but we don't teach them to think as individuals about what kind of world they would create.

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia...

It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.

People are under the illusion that it's easy...Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell my students to simplify their equipment.

College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.

What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession.

It is not the aim of Kenpo to merely produce a skillful as well as powerful practitioner, but to create a well integrated student respectful of all.

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop.

I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research.

I'll be honest; I'm a student of fashion. I say that because I just wear what I feel. I'm not led by name brands and things like that.

The systematic study of mass psychology revealed to students the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which actuate man in the group.

Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves.

In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.

The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.

If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and Animal Farm, because then they'd begin to understand the world we live in.

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

Today's students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.