Quotes About Students

The Strandbeest is a self-replicating meme, a brain virus. It infects the student's brain. In fact, the Strandbeest abuse students for their reproduction. For two years, this reproduction fell into a flow acceleration. Now, 3D printers produce walking mini Strandbeests.

It was like the old joke: the operation was a success but the patient died. Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you don't consider your students to be human beings.

I communicate that philosophy to my students frequently, to remind them that whenever I ask them to do something, my goal is to help them be successful—not simply to issue orders. Once

consistent caretakers and allowed to interact with one another, that their survival rates improved (Blum, 2002). What better evidence is there that the brain is a social organ requiring positive human connection as much as food and water? Educational experts are guilty of a similar myopathy when they focus on curricular content and test performance rather than the social world of students and teachers.

And never mind that the lessons he meant to be helpful, his students always make people miserable with, and flunk anybody that disagrees with them!

Our schools display an enormous bias in educating the mind rather than the whole person. We place major emphasis on reasoning, logic and math, with almost no concern for emotions, intuition and creativity. Our students become memorizing mimics and dull conformists, rather than exciting and feeling creators.

The measure of a great teacher isn't what he or she knows; it's what the students know.

Even for high school students we expect some degree of forgiveness particularly for those students that have only been here a short period of time whether it's Katrina or Rita. We expect less forgiveness for out Texas students who have been in our Texas system all along.

Why do teachers think it's okay to plan for loads of homework and projects the last few days of school? Give me a break.

I hate when professors keep you the entire time on the first day of class. Gimme the syllabus and get me out of here.

It's so gross when teachers lick their finger and then give the paper to me. I don't really want your dried coffee on my paper.

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.

The business of schools is to design, create, and invent high-quality, intellectually demanding schoolwork that students find engaging.

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

What I want to know from students, and I ask them right away, is, 'What do you want? I don't care what it is. I want to help you get it.

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.

An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.