Quotes About Learning

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts.

We owe it to our students to provide the best, high quality public education in Missouri.

I don't think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don't give mathematics a real chance.

The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very bright students and helps them develop only modestly.

I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.

There is a huge gap between what students want for their future and what their schools are offering.

I don't regret not going to college. Students learn up to the age of 21, then stop. I'll always be learning - the things that really matter in life. How to sign on, how to get free food, how to be streetwise.

Students often say things that they will one day change their minds about, but also things that change our minds when we think about them.

Having students was so inspiring.

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.

I taught high school students Spanish.

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.

The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.

I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.

My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science.

I don't understand why we learn what we do for most of it is of no use to us in our careers. To get a grade, students learn just about everything and later none of this is relevant. Grades become more important than learning.

I noticed that when it came time to improvise, my students would often make mistakes.

Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.

During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.

I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.