Quotes About Students

Media cycles end, but the Internet never forgets. This is a valuable lesson, especially for college students.

I've certainly enjoyed doing clinic tours for larger audiences, but the most valuable teaching experience has been the hundreds of lessons that I've given where I can hear the students play.

By assessing the capabilities and knowledge of students in the highest-performing and most rapidly improving education systems, the OECD's Program for International Student Assessment provides valuable options for reform and information on how to achieve it.

I've seen public charter schools give parents a valuable option for students in Alabama and across the country.

Education is a process involving two sets of participants who supposedly play different roles: teachers who impart knowledge to students, and students who absorb knowledge from teachers. In fact, as every open-minded teacher discovers, education is also about students imparting knowledge to their teachers, by challenging the teachers' assumptions and by asking questions that the teachers hadn't previously thought of.

None of us were surprised when he switched to a career of crime. He was something of a lech. He made one of the students pregnant.

Transfer must be the aim of all teaching in school - it is not an option - because when we teach, we can address only a relatively small sample of the entire subject matter. All teachers have said to themselves after a lesson Oh, if only we had more time! This is just a drop in the bucket! We can never have enough time. Transfer is our greatest and most difficult mission because we need to put students in a position to learn far more, on their own, than they can ever learn from us.

went to school. On the last day of their final year, which was called Assignment Day, they were given jobs to do.

She also told me that teachers don't know everything, but as long as they stay a step ahead of the students, the students think they do.

I have this philosophy that A and B students work for C students.

College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.

It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students.

We need to make sure our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell them honestly when they have it in them to work harder.

Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers.

I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.

I know I never work in whatever gets called an office, e.g., a school office I use only for meeting students and storing books I know I'm not going to read anytime soon.

Many of the people I work with I've worked with in other lifetimes. I moved to California because I knew that many of my students from past lives were in California.

It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.

We must renew our commitment to instilling high moral character in our students, to teaching them to treat each other with kindness, to stand up for what is right, and to respect the diversity of backgrounds and experiences that strengthen our country.

I attended a high school with more than 4,000 students and met with a guidance counselor only once during my four-year stint. Despite my clear strengths in science and math, my counselor's advice was to pursue a degree in business. A career in engineering was never encouraged nor, in fact, ever mentioned.

High school is already an academic and social pressure cooker, and the forces that make it stressful are amplified for queer students.

I truly find inspiration everywhere. I always tell students, and young people starting out, that the single most important skill, next to listening, is to pay attention. You never know where inspiration will strike.

Washington in the summer is a never-ending stream of tour groups and packs of students, here to swarm the monuments, stroll the National Mall, and learn about our nation's history and government.

I strongly believe that more money needs to be spent in the classroom.