Quotes About Students

This is a great tool for students as the book gets right to the heart of learning how to learn and engaging your whole brain.

How many students ... were rendered callous to ideas, and how many lost the impetus to learn because of the way in which learning was experienced by them?

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

I think too many film students in America are losing the artistry and not learning lighting the right way.

Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.

Students can do experiments and investigate for themselves what's going on in restaurants, in our food system, and begin a process of learning.

I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch this amazing thing happen.

Because teachers' work consists of affecting their students, they are dependent on their students both for the actual success of their work and evidence of that success

We want to help students maximize their strengths so they can hold jobs, pay taxes, and be happy. Watching students mature along that path is one of the great rewards of the profession.

Through the years, I have seen the records of many challenging students who tested at low levels because they were suffering from the emotional overload of their lives. It is common to see false scores at the lower end. A student cannot accidentally stumble up into the "advanced" level of an assessment, but many suffering students tumble down into the lowest percentages.

Don't stop giving sincere compliments when the student seems to be rejecting you—you are being tested to see if you can hold up to a bit of rejection. Some students will reject you before you can reject them. Don't let their attitude change your attitude of appreciation. They have to know that you believe that they can be successful in the culture.

Students have the right to know our goals—all of them. Challenging students, who have experienced adults as unpredictably dangerous creatures roaming their landscapes, have earned the right to be suspicious of us. If these students are to try again, we have to be transparent in our efforts.

What I offer in this book are stories of hanging in, the practice-based evidence from working with our most challenging students,

To work effectively with challenging students, teachers must spend a lot of time in lesson planning. Hidden in every typical set of class activities are trapdoors and land mines that can cause challenging students to disappear or explode.

narcissism levels have increased significantly among college students over the past several decades.

Another review also concluded that "teacher ratings and learning are not closely related

empirical research conducted over decades suggests that student evaluations are more than unhelpful;

which is why he makes such an excellent choice to teach students about feelings.

Students who end Professor Harlow's simulation do so at their own risk.

You all got F's!" Professor Sebastian thunders, getting wound up again.

Saved by the bell! We all three jumped as the signal rang close above our heads. On a normal day the class would have flowed politely around Ms. Abernathy standing in the doorway. They might even have waited until she moved. But this bell let us out of school for winter break. Ms. Abernathy got caught in the current of students pouring out of her classroom and down the hall. If she floated as far as the next wing maybe a history teacher would throw her a rope and tow her to safety.

To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.

With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.

Successful teaching rests both on a genuine and selfless concern for students and on the ability to convey to them a love of history.