Quotes About Students

It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students who are struggling to get an education.

The students wanted to speak to the government, and the police answered with bullets.

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it.

I'm proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It's a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.

Knowledge is a beautiful thing that can fill us with happiness. Let's just think about our students who answered brilliantly to questions on various exams.

Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

I think the exercise of trying to figure out how to simplify concepts has been incredibly helpful to me over the last 13 years of teaching and I hope my students have benefited from it.

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.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

The goal of 'Data Detectives' is to spark the imagination of students around the globe by making them think about new technologies that will impact humanity in ways similar to language and art.

The school had a big problem with drugs... especially Class A.

The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

Dreamers and thinkers believe in innovative ideas and they become the greatest students of all time.

When students are not asked to assess, but only to remember, they do not learn how to assess or how to think for themselves.

Finally, in August 1607, the cream of Ulster's Irish aristocracy, including Hugh O'Neill himself, left Ireland for permanent exile. Other Irish were to follow these hundred or so key leaders until by 1614 "there were 300 Irish students and 3,000 Irish soldiers in Spanish territories alone.

A good teacher does not teach all that he knows. He teaches all that the learners need to know at the time, and all that the learners can accountably learn in the time given.

Lessons in "eating American," it was thought, would not only breed good citizens but also improve the morale, scholarship, and health of the students.