Quotes About Students

In our school, there were lots of bands putting up posters saying 'Come to our gigs'.

To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic consensus against dictatorship and for democracy, but they were an egotistical and fractious lot, riven by disagreements over tactics and money.

I predict that you students who are burning out from the pressure to fix upon a career choice as early as possible and tailor your studies accordingly, will find relief for a few hours here and there in a great library.

While we should certainly be investing in our own STEM education, we should take advantage of the thousands of international students who come here to study and are ready to fill these gaps immediately upon graduation.

I'm so proud of each and every student who shared their artistic talents with us as part of the 2021 Congressional Art Competition.

My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn't cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford.

What the masses don't realize is that they're looking for a shepherd. Those who don't think they can be influenced or call themselves 'independent thinkers' are usually the biggest conformists of all—and the easiest to turn. Why do you think cults prey on college students? Easy picking.

When I worked as a lecturer, I had a colleague who said "The trouble with students is that they are always at your feet or at your throat." The same could be said of devotees. My colleague's words are a wonderfully concise summary of the problem of projection.

The economics training the students receive provides enormous insights into the behavior of Econs, but at the expense of losing common-sense intuition about human nature and social interactions. Graduates no longer realize that they live in a world populated by Humans.

I knew that the stupidest students, the silliest professors, and the worst bull courses are concentrated in schools of education

I can't put the profession ahead of the people it's supposed to serve," Susan said. "It would be like teachers who care more about education than students.

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Writing students are notoriously conservative creatures. They write stubbornly and hopefully within the tradition of what they have read. Getting them to try out alternative or innovative forms is harder than talking them into chastity as a life style.

Most fundamentally, school systems need to put higher quality teachers in poor schools under conditions in which they can actually teach and not just keep order.

Teachers want to know what difference they made in the lives of their pupils, and reunions are a great place to find out.

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.

Some of my students have had really bad experiences with religion. They moved away from talking to God. For a lot of people, angels are a gentle route back to the Creator.

Before I can effectively discipline students, I have to earn their friendship and respect.

The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.

Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers.

I've worked with freshmen that were easier than this.

Maybe what really matters is technology's power to enable students to reach a vast and real audience that they could never dream of in the traditional classroom.

A more fitting metaphor of the traditional pedagogy is managing a factory of mechanical workers, where the teacher is the manager and students the workers. The teacher gives instructions and assigns tasks to students each day. The students work as hard as possible to finish the tasks. At the end of the work period, the students are rewarded or punished based on how well they have complied with the instructions and completed the tasks.

respect of students' interests, freedom to explore, faith in students' ability to achieve something meaningful (rather than underestimation of their ability).