My Students Quotes

I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.

How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.

We aren't quite sure what we're trying to differentiate, and therefore can't quite see how to do it other than giving some students more to cover and some less. That rarely works.

In the best classrooms, grades are only one of many types of feedback provided to students.

Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.

Be an example of what you teach. [As a personal trainer], delve into your student's life, know everything about him. Be interested.

Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.

I am a student of whoever I can learn from.

Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it's all about making money. They know people want to see what they've seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow

Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves.

I have often said that it doesn't matter to me if a student tells me he is a leader of the left, unless he is a good student. We need good students.

The best teachers coach their students and the best coaches are great teachers.

I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen - whose language nobody can speak - to be very good permaculture people.

Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.

The proper end of teaching is to lead our students toward autonomy.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.

I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.

The greatest reward for a student is not a good grade. It is the willingness of his teacher to listen to him.

For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test.

Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math, and provides students with the skills to creatively solve problems.

Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized.

If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?

College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.

I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply buried rock at the bottom of the current.

A good teacher will appreciate the good qualities of his students. If one good quality is allowed to emerge, a world of good qualities will emerge from that one.

Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.

Excellent instruction is less about what a teacher does and more about what students can do and know as a result of the lesson.

In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.

We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.

In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.

Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.

For students, the evolution-creation discussion can be a useful exercise, for it can help develop their critical thinking skills.

There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That's what I love doing.

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.

Any school would gain, if the students began the day with meditation, cleared their heads and got themselves centered.

I love basketball, but playing basketball doesn't fully define who I am. I was always a good student, too.

I feel that students always learn more from each other than they do from their professor. They learn by doing and not by trying to soak up information from one person.