Students Quotes - Page 21

As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar to me - very African.

You can't lift people out of poverty simply by tweaking the tax system, or by raising the minimum wage by a few cents, or by reducing student debt slightly. These might be necessary components of a larger anti-poverty program, but you have to accept they are pieces of a much larger puzzle.

I hated high school. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out in my parking lot.

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

That's who comes to my workshops. I jokingly tell my students that the class could be called "Your photographs: Better."

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

What you really want to do, the objective is to get as many students coming out of there thinking differently than they went in.

Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.

I went to seven colleges. I was a professional transfer student. I had to drop out 'cause I couldn't see out the back window.

I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.

I was never a good student. I had to be dragged into kindergarten. It was hard to sit and listen to somebody talk. I wanted to be out, educated by experience and adventure, and I didn't know how to express that.

Although the universe is under no obligation to make sense, students in pursuit of a Ph. D. are.

Every student must be a gentleman.

I consider myself a student of Hollywood.

One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if they do, they've failed. They should leave someone behind every time.

As an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not encumber the student with any exercise of judgment.

I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never.

A rich diet does lead to earlier puberty but to my knowledge it does not student the adolescent growth spurt. Early pregnancy, before reaching adult height, does slow or stop growth.

I was always a very good student.

The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students, the haplessly gifted Hippasus, discovered irrational numbers that he sent the poor fellow out on a raft to drown, initiating a venerable tradition of professors mistreating their graduate students.

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians