Quotes About Students

Según la ONUDD, somos el cuarto país a nivel mundial con mayor consumo de cocaína en estudiantes, sólo estamos superados por Guatemala, Estados Unidos y Chile.

Sooner or later, it may be difficult for the traditional model of one bored professor lecturing to 30 bored students to compete with a razzle-dazzle superstar presenter with a Nobel Prize and a million online learners. Education.com and the Future of the Public Mind The $671 billion higher education industry in the US10 will likely attract more corporate interest over time.

Teachers allowed themselves to focus on shoving data while encouraging pupils 'to think for themselves'. Due to their fear of authoritarianism, liberal schools had a particular horror of grand narratives. They assumed that as long as we give students lots of data and a modicum of freedom, the students will create their own picture of the world

States and Provinces and curricula around the world track students by age. This practice is so common that we do not think of it as tracking. With few exceptions, a six year old must go into first grade even if that six year old is not ready or was ready for the grade one year earlier.

I despise public appearances. This is why I almost stopped teaching entirely. The worst thing for me is contact with students. I like universities without students. And I especially hate American students. They think you owe them something. They come to you ... Office hours!

The ways schools were organized (the homogeneous tracks, the division of students by age), their scale of virtues (where the worst sins involved talking out of turn or not standing properly in line, while generosity was barely noticed), the labels "academic" and "nonacademic" all offered glimpses into social history. Why, for example, was putting together a student newspaper nonacademic, whereas lessons in handwriting or filling in multiple-choice workbooks were academic?

How to be a great teacher: Know your students. Know your subject. Make it relevant. Teach in an organized place, in an organized way. Encourage curiosity. Ask the questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? Time is priceless. Care.

Our universities teach non-white, non-Christian, and female students to find offense everywhere. American students get degrees in Finding Offense.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something.

Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.

College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."

Instead of being the 'font of all knowledge,' teachers are required to be effective facilitators of student learning both within and outside the classroom at any time.

Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students lives REALLY do.

Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners.

The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.

I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.

Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens

the fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching.

The objective of education is learning, not teaching

I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs.