My Students Quotes

I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts.

Don't misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer.

Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius.

Negativity sells. I have been labelled a rebel. If I had been one, would I have got married at 23? Would I have been a straight A student?

A true master gives all his knowledge. But only when the student is ready.

When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even the most tired and tedious text.

I know that many students take personal responsibility for their education and succeed as a result. I want them to know they are not alone - that Nevada's system can and will support them.

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.

I'm always going to be a student. I'm always learning. I'm always trying to grow. I'm always trying to understand. I never want to feel like I've arrived.

Just the example Delaware State University graduates set by the way they live their lives, should be an inspiration to other high school students to go to Delaware State.

As I tell my intro creative writing students, after reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write.

The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people.

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that I exist? The keen old prof replied, And who is asking?

It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something.

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

When the students in the South, the blacks, started demonstrating, that was the beginning of the time of students becoming a social force around the world.

It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

I try not to tell students where to shoot, when to shoot, or what to shoot. I feel finding the picture is the most important part of being a photographer. The actual shooting is of lesser importance.

If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.

For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art.

We as educators need to reconsider our roles in students' lives, to think of ourselves as connectors first and content experts second.

I've always been a student, so I want to learn.

I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.

Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.

Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that promote student achievement.

Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

According to research, test scores improved by 17.3% for students regularly engaged in chess classes, compared with only 4.6% for children participating in other forms of enriched activities.

Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.

It hit me that the students were talking about me, not God. I was standing before a holy God and robbing Him of the glory that was rightfully His.

Being personally acquainted with a number of Waldorf students, I can say that they come closer to realizing their own potential than practically anyone I know.

My seminar is for highschool students, decent undergraduates, bright graduates, and outstanding professors.

Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side

The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.

I was under the care of a couple of medical students who couldn't diagnose a decapitation.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

For many students, school is an obligation, not a joy and a privilege. This means you need to ‘sell’ the learning to them.

If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.

When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.

She talked to me like I was just like any other student, not a kid in a wheelchair.

Skills training and industry-preparedness are the distinct advantages these students have. At the completion of their degree they have been trained to be biotechnology professionals.

Why create churches for 50-year-olds and let culture have the students?

Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up; they should have the chance to live in one today.

John von Neumann was the only student I was ever afraid of.