Students Quotes

College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.

Instead of being the 'font of all knowledge,' teachers are required to be effective facilitators of student learning both within and outside the classroom at any time.

Students are often in no position to judge 'relevance' until long after the fact.

I think too many film students in America are losing the artistry and not learning lighting the right way.

For me, environment is all. Place — as I was saying about my students — is absolutely essential.

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

Every moment you are open, as a humble student, you are surrounded with infinite possibilities of choice.

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students.

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

I was a good student when I was a kid, and I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got A's.

I always had good students.

The best students get the hardest lessons.

I was a good student in school.

Individuals in a university - students, faculty, staff - can choose to become politically engaged, and a free university should foster a climate in which those are natural choices.

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

I was always a very good student.

I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.

Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.

If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

I remember vividly one distinct memory of arriving in Hong Kong and being the only blonde haired girl in this sea of international students, and thinking, 'Oh, my God. There's no hiding here.

Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.

Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background.

I found with my students they don't necessarily look at journals any more, but they print right away from the internet what's relevant to what's he doing you see.

Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time.

I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar... If they're going into law, they're going to be chief justice.

For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.

Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands.

I shot a lot of stuff that no one will ever see. That was my student work. What also happened was there was a big jump in technology.

What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well.

You know, you can always pick the lit students," he continued, grinning. "Is that so? How?" "They're the ones who walk around wearing berets and that I-know-something-you-don't expression.

If I'm at the University of Georgia and I can't inspire this room full of students, OK, fine. I'm not going to take it personally. Maybe a little bit, but I'll be all right.

To control students is to force them to accommodate to a preestablished curriculum.

Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.

I find that I get very excited about what my students are up to and that I get to be the hurdle they need to jump over.

I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.

What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in students who want to write, the mystery of how artistic talent unfolds.

The students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption.

GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

I know I learn a lot from the students in my class and I'm not just saying that to sound like some generous teacher.

Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have a Dream." And that's it!

We don't want to just tell [students] who the people are, we don't want to just tell them what happened - we want to show the process by which it formed itself.

The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students.

One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art.

Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students lives REALLY do.

Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.

Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.

Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners.