Students Quotes - Page 2

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.

A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.

You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.

It's evolution, man. Eventually the student becomes the teacher.

The central job of schools is to maximize the capacity of each students.

I wasn’t a good student, and even now I never say that I am better than anybody, but I know I love Jiu Jitsu more than anybody. I love the energy and that it gets deeper the more you study.

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

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

Teachers learn from their students' discussions

Derek Bok's most recent book, Our Underachieving Colleges, is worth scrutinizing. . . . Bok is . . . on solid ground in pointing out that our colleges underachieve in preparing students for citizenship.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on!

Wise teachers create an environment that encourages students to teach themselves

There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.

Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles.

‎"A humble and prayerful person will find a thousand things in the Bible, which the proud student will utterly fail to discern." ~ J.C. Ryle

I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.

If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.

There's no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others

I found my student of the year, and now Tata Nano is searching for India's student of the year

It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.