Students Quotes

In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.

I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.

It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good student.

The easiest method of acquiring the habit of scholarship is through acquiring the ability to express oneself clearly in discussing and disputing scholarly problems. This is what clarifies their import and makes them understandable. Some students spend most of their lives attending scholarly sessions. Still, one finds them silent. They do not talk and do not discuss matters. More than is necessary, they are concerned with memorizing. Thus, they do not obtain much of a habit in the practice of scholarship and scholarly instruction.

What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.

Instead of bailing out Wall Street for the fourth time.. let's bail out the students.

In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own!

Every student has the ability to be a successful learner.

Students from the same teacher will differ in their skills

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

If we expect students to be winners and expect them to do well, they will rise to the occasion.

The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance

I allowed myself to be bullied because I was scared and didn't know how to defend myself. I was bullied until I prevented a new student from being bullied. By standing up for him, I learned to stand up for myself.

If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .

The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

...education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time......that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power.

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing.

Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.

The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.

In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.