Quotes About Students

Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all.

I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.

The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.

Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.

Suspension and expulsion are tied to a host of short- and long-term consequences. For some students, zero-tolerance policies in schools lead directly to involvement in the criminal justice system.

I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.

Knitting helps get both sides of the brain going, has a calming effect, and helps students in problem solving.

In the ideal classroom, the teacher is either spending all of their time doing deep interventions with students on a one-on-one basis or facilitating true interactivity - labs, simulations, projects.

Mechanical testing tempts us with the false promise of efficiency. It whispers that there is an easier, less costly, more scientific way. But the truth is that blackening circles only prepares students to blacken more circles in the future. The sooner we realize this, the sooner we will be redeemed from our craziness.

Plato's discussants and querents are not polite as students and teachers are polite. They are polite the way only fantasy discussants can be civil inside a fantasy. Were they real, they'd be at each other's throats before eight or nine pages were done.

With perfection comes pressure. Students here are some of the best in the country, and sometimes, they have to let off a little steam. What five girls don't know, though, is that steam can scald just as badly as an open flame.

The Bible is alive; it is our students who are dead and must be resurrected. Story stirs the sleeping; scripture raises the dead.

Challenging schools to treat their students as customers with a choice, instead of inmates serving time.

We need teacher educators who regularly spend a great deal of time in classrooms so they have a deep understanding of where they students will teach.

All students need to know about color is the basic color wheel and complimentary colors. There are many books on color theory; do not waste your time and money.

I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give them a placebo.

Until a teacher learns to use elements like time, space, materials, groupings, and so forth flexibly, it's incredibly difficult to teach students as they need to be taught.

In many of our [online] courses, the median response time for a question on the question and answer forum was 22 minutes - which is not a level of service I have ever offered to my Stanford students.

Social media allows people to connect. So instead of reading about the Arab Spring, I can have students following along, in real-time, with what is happening.

Ugh. Don't even get me started. It's like teachers think we have nothing better to do with our lives than to come home and do more schoolwork.) [SirLeo] (It's coz they're old and have no lives and want to punish those who do.)

Salmon (2002), in her book E-tivities, provides examples of online icebreakers. Our favorite examples include a "Quiz of all the class members." Figure 6.4 An online icebreaker (adapted from Salmon, 2002) In this icebreaker, the teacher asks all the students to post some information about themselves.

We encouraged volunteers to think of themselves not as people who run errands to keep a program going but as spiritual directors in the lives of students. Chris Folmsbee

Nobody steals books except kleptomaniacs and university students. In most places you can leave a book on the street and come back for in the next day.

I decided that I was going to fewer student parties after I ripped part of the sleeve out of my black dress helping a freshman climb a fence. By the end of the first semester, what I wanted to do most in the world was invite a few of my husband's students over for tea and drop them down the well.