Students Quotes

Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

I went to high school in the 1970s and was a real daydreamer and not the best student.

You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are not inclined to do so they never will.

He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.

I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.

I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students.

Do everything you can to learn your craft. Score student films for free, attend conferences, learn music theory - do anything and everything you can.

It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don't pass on your own awareness then it closes down again.

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

Twelve million students take the PARCC or Smarter Balanced. Now, if 5 percent opt out, that creates - that triggers some restrictions, and 5 percent of 12 million is only 600,000.

Lord Of The Rings fandom was massive, worldwide, entrenched. Generally it had been part of the fans' life all their life, because they had it read to them as children; they'd become Tolkien students.

It's not about being digital. It's about students who are born digital.

Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.

But you also are facing an uphill battle if you are trying to be the first teacher who asks students to think in class and they are already 16 years old.

I think students ought to have the right to protest, but not to the point of anarchy.

The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.

I was studying with Joe Allard, which was great, as a saxophone student. Being able to study with Joe Allard was an incredible experience.

Alan [Ferber] is a great trombonist and composer. I'm thankful that I got some associations like that through peers and former students. That's kind of what it is.

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.

The teacher "teaches" and the students "sit and listen" or learn passively.

This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.

There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned from my teacher was just hearing him play.

In those days [the 1790s],the students paid their professors directly for the lectures-typically about three guineas a class (a guinea was worth slightly more than a pound).

It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students.

Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.

In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.

School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them?

When Ronald Reagan became president, students could no longer get food stamps.

Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company and later my degree course all helped form my love of telling stories and directing.

I could do all of my activities at Howard because it was an environment that had essentially rid the ideology of false choices that I feel absolutely constricts young black students.

Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion.

University students are rarely able to cope with universals and death is the most embarrassing universal.

And I'm a Hailsham student - which is enough by itself sometimes to get people's backs up.

Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies.

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?

Arts education must be part of our education solution because it works for all students.

I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down in my mind when I tried to work.

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there.

We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in the Bay Area.

Be careful. I wouldn’t want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language.” I laughed. “No problemo.

As a university student, I tried hard to write poems in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time.

Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.

Now, once again, 2 students left. But of course they're a part of you now.

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.

I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: "C-Students from Yale".

I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.

When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as a writer.