Students Quotes

I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use.

What I often forget about students, especially undergraduates, is that surface appearances are misleading. Most of them are at base as conventional as Presbyterian deacons.

Both teachers and students must move ahead together for the nation to progress.

I feel blessed I can address students who are the future of India.

When I went to a school in Japan, they told me that both the teachers and students perform cleaning tasks here to keep the schools clean. I wondered why can't we do it in India.

We must question why the smartest students don't choose to become teachers.

All learning is remembering. A good teacher causes students to remember what they already know.

The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.

Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art.

Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools.

I always call myself a "student" of the guitar.

I think bullies are very lonely people. I always tell teenagers not to bully others because it's unacceptable. We need to teach students to value themselves and to not put others down.

I've always maintained that I see myself as a student. There's always something to learn and be challenged by and hopefully grow from.

I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.

Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own. . .

They, students have a degree of freedom that nobody else has.

I used to teach writing in a federal prison, and for my students' benefit, I would liken the narrative use of this highly personal point of view to a boxer's getting in close to his opponent.

Business schools are failing to teach the students about the risks of market failures. We need to include some material on market failures in the core of curriculum.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

Students are often taught when to use a particular method and how to use it, but not how to effectively write up their research plan and then later their research results.

It's very hard to find good and wholesome, edifying and challenging writing for the students to perform. In my classroom I strive to do that as best as I can.

If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they'd all be a lot more comfortable. If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby].

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.

You would hope that the supposed best of American educational institutions would teach its students about America as an institution.

In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

I was there [in school] the full time with one teacher, and the student body was never more than 10 or 12 students of all ages.

I was a Ph.D. student at a very reputable university, I was a Harvard research associate at one of the world's premier leadership institutions.

I wrote my sonic meditations and started using them with students. I took a bunch of UCSD students out to Joshua Tree and we did the sonic meditations on the boulders.

[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I had something to do and something to say.

In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

It's exciting and encouraging that the spirit of exploration is alive and that students see it occurring in their lifetime. These may well be the children that make it a reality.

The passion/hunger of the student brings out the experience/wisdom of the mentor.

When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.

I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.

What I experienced in Cuba, I have become a student of what, how communism operates.

I have students who are PhDs in music who come back and scored the music and teach the kids the instruments that I don't know how to play. Those are the points of light, the former students.

Teachers literally break down at the thought that if their students have a bad a test day, their job is on the line.

We need to bring the spiritual dimension back into yoga and encourage students to look for teachings and practices that will take them to the next level.

Students are not to read the Bible, jurors are not to hear it, prosecutors cannot quote from it, and teachers are not to display it.

You [Jill Stein] want to do something about student debt. And that affects conservative and liberal students. That's going to be a majoritarian position.

Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

The student is to read history actively and not passively.

There's 150,000 students here from the Middle East. If 40% of them have overstayed their visa, don't we need to know where they are, what they're doing, are they obeying our rules?

Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.

We need to make sure our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell them honestly when they have it in them to work harder.

A rich diet does lead to earlier puberty but to my knowledge it does not student the adolescent growth spurt. Early pregnancy, before reaching adult height, does slow or stop growth.