Students Quotes

Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildlife, walking trails, and gardens.

One of my students told me that every time she learns the name of a plant, she feels as if she is meeting someone new. Giving a name to something is a way of knowing it.

I hate it when something I've had published "inspires" some nut to imitate what I've written, or some teacher gets fired for having her students read one of my stories or novels.

I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never.

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.

As an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not encumber the student with any exercise of judgment.

We should also give students more flexibility in the courses they take in high school to prepare them for whatever their goals may be, without sacrificing our rigorous academic standards.

It's... time to introduce scholarship programs that give students a choice, especially those who are locked into low-performing schools.

One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if they do, they've failed. They should leave someone behind every time.

I consider myself a student of Hollywood.

My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work.

Every student must be a gentleman.

The most common mistake we make as teachers is attempting to tell our students too much.

I personally believe it's really important for the students to experience a particular culture.

Although the universe is under no obligation to make sense, students in pursuit of a Ph. D. are.

The students realize that it's their life I'm talking about: it's out of balance, they're struggling to put it into balance. How are they going to do it?

Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.

We have to be sure [students] understand that racial, national, ethnic, and religious hatred can lead to horrible tragedies.

It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles.

Prohibiting guns on campus made the Virginia Tech students less safe, not more.

I went to seven colleges. I was a professional transfer student. I had to drop out 'cause I couldn't see out the back window.

We created a show and a scenario for college students where they can take what they learn in class every day and apply it to the real world.

Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.

Public schools teaching students to hate America as the left appeases Muslims with "religious literacy training."

What you really want to do, the objective is to get as many students coming out of there thinking differently than they went in.

I find that students are very strong on my issues, stronger than anyone: anti-death penalty, anti-racial profiling, campaign finance reform, questioning the anti-terrorism bill.

It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here.

I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

That's who comes to my workshops. I jokingly tell my students that the class could be called "Your photographs: Better."

Everything your students need to know about philosophy communicated in a way that appeals to them, as well as inspire many of them to the study of philosophy.

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

I hated high school. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out in my parking lot.

What I tend to tell my students is, “When you look in the mirror and see a smart, angry girl who wants to be free, you're seeing a paradigm that Kathy [Acker] helped bring into the recognizable.”

As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar to me - very African.

We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo.

I feel compassionate, because I know [students] all have to go down this road of suffering and it's going to be tough.

All students of disaster movies know that nothing survives these natural onslaughts except cats and the highest paid film stars.

The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

Sometimes, I even learn new techniques from my students. Although I am still a student at the Art Institute, I think that I have learnt a lot from the classes that I have already taken.

Charlie, you’re one of the most gifted people I’ve ever known. And I don’t mean in terms of my other students. I mean in terms of anyone I’ve ever met.

I'm not honestly a real student of animation. I never was into it all that much. I don't really watch any animated shows.

Find a way to delight in all students. Look for the best, expect the best, and find something in each child [you] can treasure.

Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.

As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.

I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is.

Raising parent awareness on how to support their students to be safe, responsible and discerning users of technology continues to be a challenge.

I got married to Chris Sarandon, who was a graduate student, and he knew everything at that point, I thought, because he was older. He introduced me to poetry and black-and-white movies.