Quotes About Students

In Idaho, we hope to see educators using Khan Academy to individualize their instruction. Instead of a one-size-fits-all lesson, teachers will be able to focus their attention on specific students who are struggling while the rest of the class engages with material appropriate for them.

Teachers need to have the capacity to spot those that are struggling early on and intervene.

Obviously Massachusetts has one of the best public school systems in the country. But there are schools, like in Brockton, where kids are struggling because they just need more funding.

Every student has something to offer, and every student deserves a nurturing learning environment.

My dad, who was a teacher, used to tell me that a teacher's goal should be for every one of their students to get an A. If that's your goal every day - to make every student or player learn - then it doesn't matter if you won last year or didn't win. When next year's team shows up, I try to help every player become as good as they can be.

As educators and policy makers, it is important to demonstrate for parents the connection between high levels of student participation in assessment and system accountability - ensuring the success of every student.

I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.

Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.

But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance in school.

I was a terrible science student, so I could never be a scientist; my mind doesn't work that way. But I've learned to love the stories around science, and I have so much respect and fascination for the people who can make discoveries and find applications. There's a lot of drama there.

The students' union and the student body work hard to support the university in encouraging applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply to Oxford.

An institution of higher education is a partnership among students and alumni, faculty and administrators, donors and trustees, neighborhoods and more, to build a community - and a culture.

Any institutions' alumni are key to its growth. We are focused on giving a global experience to our students.

The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.

The harassment and the bullying that students face is a learned behavior.

Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students.

For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying.

I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz people. But going back was strange, and perhaps stranger for the other students.

How can we let students go to school everyday in an environment where they're afraid to be verbally or physically bullied? We are better than this, which is why we need to keep moving forward.

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.

Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses.