Quotes About Students

According to the Progressives, education is to be not subject-centered, but child-centered. ("We don't teach history, we teach Johnny.")

The general lack of awareness of gender differences disadvantages both girls and boys, but it disadvantages them in different ways. When teachers don't understand these gender differences, the results too often is a school where the boys think that creative writing is for girls and the girls think physics is for guys. When teachers understand these gender differences they can break down gender stereotypes.

Os melhores alunos da minha escola vendem drogas para os melhores alunos da sua.

The academic world is competitive. For ideas, grants, students, funding.

I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.

Embryos are like photograph film, said Mr. Foster waggishly, as he pushed open the second door. They can only stand red light. And in effect the sultry darkness into which the students now followed him was visible and crimson, like the darkness of closed eyes on a summer's afternoon.

the sultry darkness into which the students now followed him was visible and crimson, like the darkness of closed eyes on a summer's afternoon. The bulging flanks of row on receding row and tier above tier of bottles glinted with innumerable rubies, and among the rubies moved the dim red spectres of men and women with purple eyes and all the symptoms of lupus.

And in effect the sultry darkness into which the students now followed him was visible and crimson, like the darkness of closed eyes on a summer's afternoon.

Like chickens drinking, the students lifted their eyes towards the distant ceiling.

But one of the students was fool enough to ask where the advantage lay. My good boy! The Director wheeled sharply round on him. Can't you see? Can't you SEE? He raised a hand; his expression was solemn. Bokanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability! Major instruments of social stability. Standard men and women; in uniform batches. The whole of a small factory staffed with the products of bokanovskified egg.

By doing certain things certain results will follow. Students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophical validity to any of them.

Instead of revamping school policies to welcome every child, many school systems are bent on revamping the students to conform to their schools.

In high school, Jake and Arjun had been straight A students who were heavily involved in school activities and did not party.

Studies have shown that, at least among students, popularity equals visibility.

You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.

While teachers often complain that their students seem to do very little thinking, teachers who simply follow the manual should understand that they are actually contributing to the problem. Students seldom learn to think under the tutelage of teachers who do not think either.

Many students hope to earn their target score the first time they take from Domywriting. However, retaking the exam is a very common practice, as doing so can help you improve both your result and your graduate school admissions chances.

And while this might just be the cliché attraction that many students were fabled to feel toward their professors—although this seemed to work better for literature professors than for those teaching physics—he didn't care.

The school would have large classrooms, with up to one hundred students and four teachers in each classroom. The students would often work collaboratively, mostly in teams of three or four. And the teachers were expected to work with one another in leading the classes.

In addition, teachers would have to learn to deal with students who no longer sat in rows, eyes ahead and pencils at the ready. They would have to be up on the latest uses of technology and computers, because their students would not be using textbooks. Classrooms would be brimming with computers, and the teachers would have to know how to use them.

In the best classrooms, grades are only one of many types of feedback provided to students.

I have long said that good teaching consists in loving the subject you are teaching in the presence of students whom you also love.