Quotes About Students

Preachers of the gospel must also be students of the culture they are sent to. A minister must be a student of the Word, but he must also be a student of men. He must study them—not just men generally, but the men of his own era, the men to whom he is charged to bring the gospel.

Educators by the same token must cast their teaching in behavior rather than feelings toward their students.

As an effective teacher, you must not only know that which you would teach—that is, your content—but you must also know those whom you wish to teach.

My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.

We knew they must be student inspectors. The newspapers had pointed out that the fourolds were also reflected in clothing, and now high school students had taken responsibility for eliminating such dress. For example, any pants with a leg narrower than eight inches for women or nine inches for men would be considered fourolds.

Respect the teachers? That's the nonsense of 'teachers' dignity.' You two are typical 'teachers' obedient little lambs,' do you know that?" Du Hai recited more phrases from the newspaper. The world had turned upside down. Now it was a crime for students to respect teachers. I couldn't keep calm.

When teachers stop learning, so do students.

When someone becomes a teacher, she's like the matchmaker in Fiddler on the Roof. All year long she's trying to entice students to go out on dates with authors—that is, to pick up this book or that book and spend twenty minutes with the author, someone they've never met. The better she knows her students and authors or books, the more successful will be the "matchmaking." But the teacher (or librarian) who doesn't read much will fail for sure.

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.

following in the footsteps of Marx, twentieth-century students of capitalism internalized progress to see only one powerful current at a time, ignoring the rest.

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

There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.

He agreed to look into their claims, but on the condition that all the studies were done in the evening, and that the students came to the laboratory through a back door so that none of his colleagues would see them.

We think that the demands of any given task are focused in the area of our goal, such as mathematical computation. But within the way we present a task, we often create demands that are not relevant to the goals or purposes of the lesson or task. For instance, consider the classic case of the word problem. We think the demands of the task are about math, but there are of course also reading demands that confound our understanding of students' successes or failures.

Teachers loved to say people had potential; that's what teachers did to keep themselves from getting canned. What were they supposed to say- I'm sorry, your kid has no promise whatsoever? She's utterly mediocre in every way?

Experience can be an effective teacher. But, clearly, only some students listen to their teachers.

More than 90% of professors rate themselves as better-than-average teachers. About 90% of Americans rate their driving ability as better than average. Only 1% of students think their social skills are below average.

Tracking the intellectual advancement of several hundred graduate students in the sciences over the course of four years, its authors found that the development of crucial skills such as generating hypotheses, designing experiments, and analyzing data was closely related to the students' engagement with their peers in the lab, and not to the guidance they received from their faculty mentors.

The majority of the research I do is archaeological research, but to me, as a professor, the most important thing is to encourage and mentor students.

Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.

States are better equipped to serve students than the federal government, and we should direct funding to programs that have a demonstrated record of success.

Isn't prom just a fun dance that hardworking students deserve? Sure, but it's also an event where girls internalize damaging cultural messages.

When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.