Students Quotes

I liked being a kid. I liked being a student.

My classroom is set up to accommodate the different types of assignments students do. Sitting at a single desk the entire class time just doesnt work for this type of class.

I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night.

Areas with lots of college students/young people can be a minefield, so I tend to avoid them.

Gifted students represent a vital resource that has unlimited potential. We need to make sure that these exceptional young people have the support and services they need to be successful.

I always say to my students, if you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.

Texas is reportedly going to give college students the right to carry guns on campus. So I guess that next semester, every college student in Texas is getting straight A's.

The importance of 'Dream School' is monumental. Helping to inspire these students to reach their potential is personally gratifying.

Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree.

My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students.

Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.

I taught high school students Spanish.

I believe that the greatest teachers create thinking students.

I know I never work in whatever gets called an office, e.g., a school office I use only for meeting students and storing books I know I'm not going to read anytime soon.

Stop teaching students that they are the best and the brightest.

I can't stand callow amateurs who aren't sufficiently interested in the craft of advertising to assume the posture of students.

We want our students to be the students we want to teach.

I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.

I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.

When I made my student film, a feature, nobody wanted to talk to me and I was, like, in the desert for 12 years.

I was a film student. I became an actor but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

Some of my best friends are Hindu or Buddhist or Sikh, my students as well. This is the sea in which I swim.

The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.

This is a win for the 4-year-olds who require pre-K, the low-wealth counties that need assistance with school construction and the disadvantaged students trying to go college.

We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen.

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.

The students who work with me believe in science in service of society, not science in service of career building.

I believe colleges should not be allowed to benefit from unlimited federal largesse while taking advantage of students.

Some of my students have had really bad experiences with religion. They moved away from talking to God. For a lot of people, angels are a gentle route back to the Creator.

The students always, always surprise me.

I also have my backpack of the tried-and-true, and because it is new to [my students], it becomes fresh to me again as well.

I share my life experiences as a poet with my students. My poetic difficulties, joys, struggles and discoveries. If I read a new poem or essay or book I'm excited about, I bring it in.

Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start."

Sometimes you get lit students that know a lot about the canon but virtually nothing about contemporary poetry and vice versa. I like to mix things up.

How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook.

My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of my students.

What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." It's a joke.

Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.

I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

I had a passion for cooking, and I was a very bad student.

I really like visiting schools, but what I tell students isn't anywhere near as interesting to me as what they tell me.

Students can do experiments and investigate for themselves what's going on in restaurants, in our food system, and begin a process of learning.

Be a learner first, a master second, and a student always.

Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.

The most important thing taught to my students is to not be so photo realist in what they depict.