My Students Quotes

There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.

What is this generation of students worth? It's worth everything.

I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble.

My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.

Many of my students don't know that I'm second lady of the United States... because, you know, it's a community college.

One of the things that make community colleges so special is they do not pick and choose their students - they work with all students.

I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.

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.

Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.

True teaching liberates the student from his teacher.

The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

Challenging schools to treat their students as customers with a choice, instead of inmates serving time.

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready-for nothing in particular.

I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.

Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.

The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.

You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can.

Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

Students need to be reminded that revision isn't merely making a few cosmetic changes. Revision is seeing and then reseeing our words and practicing strategies that make a difference in our writing.

Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.

Over 60 percent of the university students in Iran are female. The women in Iran are better educated than men.

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.

The trend of offering individualized education plans, curricula, and lessons is going to help students tremendously. “Teaching to the middle” is one of the saddest concepts I've ever heard about.

Worrisome. It's romanticism, and it's dangerous to have children and students on the street.

For Zen students, a weed is a treasure.

Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.

When students scoff at the idea of a magical relation between a picture and what it represents, ask them to take a photograph of their mother and cut out the eyes.

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

When I was a young student, I thought grow-ups would come and make things work. Now I realize that grown-ups are just kids with wrinkles.

What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.