Student Quotes
To become a better you, keep doing what you have been doing right and learn to correct what you have been doing wrongly.
We should keep learning so long as we have grace and breathe.
Thoreau went to the woods. I went to the mats.
We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life.
Do not seek victory, for victory in itself will not serve you. Seek to understand what made the victory possible.
An arm bar in a vacuum is worthless. It is the realization of the truths which constitute that arm bar that is the real treasure we seek.
For the sincere student, it mustn't be enough to simply understand Jiu Jitsu. We must seek to understand ourselves.
I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it.
There is no concrete way to play Jiu Jitsu, and this is why so many different types of people find joy in it.
Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world's friend.
I don't want to be like my mentor or inspiration, I can do better. Don't get me wrong, I need them to motivate and inspire me but my potential can never be like theirs.
I've come to learn, and to establish mine in that same place i come from. Staying in my school place makes me always a student.
There are some things you can’t learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.
Do not trust a teacher that is unwilling to learn.
Education is acquisition of intellectual knowledge to be what we ought to be.
The question is not "can you wear your father's shoes?". The question is "can you walk in your father's shoes?". It is one thing having a mentor and it is another thing to become like your mentor.
That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the street’s burn.
To those who are struggling. To talk about a struggle, you're likely to forget about it. To be shown a struggle, you're likely not to forget it. But, to live through a struggle, you'll understand it.
It was a failure of pedagogical nerve, she reminded herself, to give up on a student.
...once students have been taught that learning is tedious, difficult, and useless, they will never learn another lesson.
Because that was the problem with society. It cared too much about who you fell in love with but never about why. The why matters.
Why the anchor?""Because sometimes, it's nice to feel like there's someone who can save you.
I think I like you, " I muttered, pressing my face to his muscled torso in a hug. I felt his heartbeat under my ear."I think I like you back.
You feel pretty, manly to me, " I breathed out, all jelly-legged with half-mast eyes."And you feel like a woman worthy of a fight, Ms.Greene.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn
The student has his Rome, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.
In my illustrious career as a university student, I turned in over 100 papers so that one day, in the end, I got 1 paper in return.
Just because something awful happens to someone else, it doesn't mean the issues in your life should take any less importance.
South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures - all speak to the visitor, to the student, to the friend of Africa.
You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes.
I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student Union affairs and in student politics.
I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.