Quotes About Students

When we're able to identify disparities in education, we can better determine whether federal grant programs are effectively reaching our students, allowing us to improve how to distribute and implement these funds across communities.

There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

When I talk with my students, I introduce a process of work I call the three R's: First comes research, then real world exploration, and finally, and perhaps most important, a fact-checking review of all that has been written.

We shouldn't be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while giving a great deal to the banks. That's just wrong.

Under the guise of BDS, Jewish students on college campuses across the United States are being subjected to blatant anti-Semitism.

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

You thought that we limit the choices of our students?' asked Ader. 'We do not, but it is a sad fact that the great majority limit themselves.

You thought that we limit the choices of our students… We do not, but it is a sad fact that the great majority limit themselves.

All those who teach are hated.

I myself teach no one, knowing I would make my students stronger to destroy me. I advise you to follow the same course.

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

My opportunity to design school choice systems began in 2003 with a phone call from Jeremy Lack at the New York City Department of Education. He knew of my work on the medical match and wondered if similar efforts might help reorganize the dysfunctional, congested system then used to match students to high schools.

I am definitely a Type A personality, always rushing around, trying to do too much, not good at just lying on the beach. But I'm so thankful for everything I have: wonderfully supportive parents and sisters, the best husband in the world, terrific students I love teaching and hanging out with, and above all, my two amazing daughters.

There is a woman named Wendy Wood, who did a study when she was at Duke, and she followed around college students to try to figure out how much of their day was decision-making versus how much was habit. And what she found was that about 45 percent of all the behaviors that someone did in a day was habit.

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.

The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.

I've met students across Rhode Island who rely on Pell Grants. They work hard, play by rules, and are doing everything they can to get the education they need for the jobs of tomorrow.

Scientists need to be prepared to engage, and the best people to engage with are students, ideally from primary school because there's no question that their capacity to work out complex things is extremely good.

America's greatest long-term influence on China comes from playing host to the thousands of students who come from China each year, some of the ablest Chinese scholars and scientists. They will be the most powerful agents for change in China.

New Hampshire charter schools have proven themselves to be an integral part of our state's high-quality public education system for thousands of students.

Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.

Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.

There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them.