Quotes About Students

Like all good students, I yearned for nothing but approval, even from fools.

This is what I think so many of us who work in the arts and the humanities hope to receive from our universities, from our government, from sometimes skeptical students and their parents: patience and faith in us as we test the limits of our ignorance, as we pursue what may very well be useless, as we go in search of that mystery and intuition that exist within all of us.

Like so many aging college people, Pnin had long since ceased to notice the existence of students on the campus.

For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much.

Enormous novels by co-eds. Rain down on our defenceless heads. Till our teeth chatter.

... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us a faculty that can pass our Master's exams."

Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked.

The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.

I found that I loved producing that kind of propaganda and I loved the power that a few students with a Macintosh computer could wield. I was hooked on communications at that point.

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

Are you ready to present your book reports?" Miss Shindling asked. The classroom erupted with sounds—chairs scraping, Trapper-Keepers being opened, papers being rustled, throats being cleared.

Those who celebrate failure will not be around to help today's students celebrate their jobs flipping burgers.

the more infantile the students, the more seriously they take themselves. They are generally a humorless lot." In

Nearly every African who has given the issue thought knows that America is not only not racist, it is the best place for an African to immigrate to. That is why more black Africans have come to America voluntarily than came to America as slaves — a statistic that virtually no college student is allowed to know.

But the combination of modern hyper-parenting and left-leaning professors and administrators has allowed students to remake universities into large-scale editions of the island in Lord Of The Flies.

Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.

We must empower educators to provide the best learning environment possible for students.

Education is the key to opportunity and ensuring our students are ready for jobs in a 21st century economy.

My mom was a piano teacher. It turned into something of a competition between me and her students... I liked the idea that I needed to be better than everybody else.

In teaching, the other main problem related to type is the students' interest. Intuitives and sensing types differ greatly in what they find interesting in any subject even if they like, that is, are interested in, the same subjects. Intuitives like the principle, the theory, the why. Sensing types like the practical application, the what and the how.

In fact, healthy students often redouble their resistance to teaching as they find themselves more comprehensively manipulated. This resistance is due not to the authoritarian style of a public school or the seductive style of some free schools, but to the fundamental approach common to all schools-the idea that one person's judgment should determine what and when another person must learn.

You made your students write stories about happiness and they were, you said, the worst stories of the year.

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I think that only students who do math problems should be allowed to come to the chocolate party," said Andrea. "Could you possibly be any more boring?" I asked her.