Quotes About Progress

I was a D student in high school and on the dean's list in college.

One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biologist. There was animal behavior, then there was a long time nothing, after which came human behavior as a totally separate category best left to a different group of scientists.

Enacted under President George W. Bush's administration with the promise to focus on individual student achievement and overall school performance, No Child Left Behind was heralded as groundbreaking. And in some ways, it was.

I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy.

When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease.

'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

I'll always be a student. I learn by doing.

I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get to that point.

I think I spent most of my childhood, and my early years as a performer, in student mode. And I think that's OK - I mean, it led me to where I am.

There's very little that's comparable to seeing the spark in a student's face when she gets something that she's been struggling with.

'Saw,' in many ways, was like my student film. The first crappy student film you don't really want people to see.

For millions of Americans, federally subsidized student loans and Pell Grants are an important resource for us to get ahead so we can achieve the American dream.

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.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

I think this is one of the greatest strengths of this school. Not only do the students go on to achieve great milestones in their own lives, they never forget their roots and the school that gave them the chance they needed to improve their lives and their families' lives.

The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very bright students and helps them develop only modestly.

Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.

All students can learn.

The advice I tell students is to think about the big problems. I mean, work on anything you can work on where you can make progress. But always keep in mind the big problems.

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

I noticed that when it came time to improvise, my students would often make mistakes.

No government is ever going to get it perfect. The job of policymakers is to continue seeking perfection and making it better and constantly reassessing to ensure that the students and the parents are getting the most out of the education system.

I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.