Quotes About Students

Each and every student deserves equitable access to a quality public education that prepares them for college, career, and citizenship.

When we talk about public education, we don't worry about a district. We don't focus on an individual school or a building when we talk about education. We talk about kids and what's best for kids. It doesn't matter what's best for the adults; what matters is what's best for the individual kids.

We evaluate all business decisions based on how we can best serve public school teachers and their students.

Prioritizing our public schools, teachers and students is the single best investment we can make to build a better, brighter future for our families.

I think there are really are some public schools, incredibly successful public schools, that are inculcating a real educational ethic in their students.

In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.

I favor a system where students in publicly funded institutions make a commitment: if they do well in the private sector, they will revert a certain percentage of their income to the education sector; and if they devote some years to public service, their debt will be forgiven.

The most important thing is to recognize that research is our seed corn. It's a national security priority. It's not just a way to have enough going on that graduate students can do their Ph.D.s and scientists can publish. We have to do research, or we'll fall behind the rest of the world.

When I was teaching I'd go to some schools where no one wanted to dance - when they came into the room it was as though they were being punished. But I'd put on the loudest, the heaviest metal you could imagine and they loved it.

All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

Committed teachers know their students' needs better than anyone in the system. Traditionally, however, teachers have little control over the purchase of student materials.

The California Science Center is a cornerstone in California's push to educate and encourage students to reach their full potential and to pursue careers in science and engineering.

It gives me a lot of energy to talk to developers or meet students in classrooms who are using our technology to help learn faster and better. Watching them pursue their passion.

The resources at Harvard - its professors, our fellow students, the libraries, its alumni - created for me the opportunity to pursue my passions in finance.

It is our duty as legislators to protect the success of our students as they pursue higher education.

When I got to college, I discovered how many incredible opportunities NASA offered students pursuing a career in the space industry.

When the Asian flu hit the United States in 1957, during the Eisenhower administration, it was just the latest contagion college students had faced in a lifetime of contagious diseases.

It is important to engage students by focussing at what they wanted to do, rather than forcing them to do something.

Sometimes it's forgotten that players are coming to college to get a degree.

It's one thing to make financial aid available to students so they can attend college. It's another thing to design forms that students can actually fill out.

I founded DonorsChoose.org because I care about learning, and I believe every student in our country deserves a great education.

I believe that those closest to the children should be making the decisions about how funds should be spent, what the curriculum should look like, and what's the best way to help our students.

Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity." Odrade explaining. "The young must be damped down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don't spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.

My Stuyvesant students were not satisfied. Why was I telling them stories of women from the Islands and Puerto Ricans and Greeks when the world was going to hell? Because the women from the Islands believe in education. You can demonstrate and shake your fists, burn your draft cards and block the traffic with your bodies, but what do you know in the end? For the ladies from the Islands there is one relevance, education. That is all they know. That is all I know. That is all I need to know.