Quotes About Students

now they complained that the crazed music was too bizarre, and even worse, "irrelevant to students [and] metal- and textile-workers.

While A Nation at Risk recommended significantly more homework, it is doubtful that the three to four hours of often mindless homework that many high school students put in on a daily basis is what its authors had in mind. Many countries that score higher than the United States on international tests of achievement give less, not more, homework than we do.

You mentioned law school, he said, and this grabbed her attention. They talked about it at length, with Jake careful not to make his description as dreadful as the three-year ordeal itself. Occasionally, like all lawyers, Jake was asked by students if he would recommend the law as a profession. He had never found an honest way to say no, though he had many reservations.

I've moved you down to the floor. Things have cleared out a bit. Again, thanks for taking such an interest in our judicial system. It's very important to good government." With that, Judge Gantry was finished. The students thanked him. He and Mr. Mount shook hands again.

It is the well educated who will improve society—and they will improve it, at first, by criticizing it, and we are giving them the tools to criticize it. Naturally, as students, the brighter of them will begin their improvements upon society by criticizing us.

Wit isn't tentative; therefore, neither is it young. Wit is one of many aspects of life and literature that is far easier to recognize onstage than in a book. My students are always missing the wit in what they read, or else they do not trust it; onstage, even an amateur actor can make anyone see what wit is.

The classes they taught were for no student's special development; their interests were the subject themselves—their passions were for the politics of the university, or of their own departments within it—and their overall view of us students was that we should conform ourselves to their methods of their disciplines of study.

I also told the students that, for the sake of humanity's future, I hoped that they were all sterile.

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

A good student is one who will teach you something.

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools.

Higher education is the only business that has a ceremony for firing its customers.

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.

Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools.

For the college years we will provide scholarships to high school students of the greatest promise and greatest need and guarantee low-interest loans to students continuing their college studies.

The price of a college education should never include a 1 in 5 chance of being sexually assaulted.

EFFECT OF A TRUE TEACHER GOES UP TO ETERNITY THROUGH HIS STUDENTS.

With homework, school prepares students for overtime. With reports, it prepares them for payday.

Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college education often takes the form of loans, both private and from the government.

No matter where I travel in the state, people want to talk about education.

The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.

The freshmen bring a little knowledge in and the seniors take none out so it accumulates through the years.

In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.