My Students Quotes

We have but one rule here, and that is that every student must be a gentleman.

Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?

I used to jokingly say, "I don't teach art. I'm an art doctor." Students come to me and say, "My art's sick," and we help them make it well.

Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

Instead of being a student of a (given) field, I would like you to be the field.

I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work - and about half the students got really pissed off.

The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.

I always tell the younger filmmakers and students: Do it like the painters used to...Study they old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand the canvas. There's always so much more to learn.

I always feel like everything I shoot is a student project and nobody else knows about it. I forget, in the moment, that other people will see it.

I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.

When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.

A student's mentality in learning martial arts is to overcome one's problems.

He particularly liked about making students safe for ideas, not ideas safe for students.

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

When the student is ready, the messenger appears.

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.

Because students leave school without financial skills, millions of educated people pursue their profession successfully, but later find themselves, struggling financially.

A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn't forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student.

Education today does not impart to the students the capacity or grit to face the challenges of daily life. The educational field has become the playing ground of ignorance.

Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.

There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure.

Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea.

I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.

Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and the student grow.

I smoked with a lot of college students... Most of em wasn't graduatin, and they knew it.

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

Business schools make a fortune forcing their students to take in a HUGE amount of information. The majority of it is theoretical. The majority of that is useless.

Hold tight to the mentality of being a student, meaning hold on to curiosity and approach life as a student.

A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that challenges the left vision.

There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?

The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.

For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.

The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.

When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.

I have read that, on the average, the Japanese are getting taller, but at the moment they seem to be about the same height as American junior-high-school students, only with fewer guns.