Students Quotes - Page 22

We need to make sure our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell them honestly when they have it in them to work harder.

Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.

There's 150,000 students here from the Middle East. If 40% of them have overstayed their visa, don't we need to know where they are, what they're doing, are they obeying our rules?

The student is to read history actively and not passively.

The secret of success in education is respecting the students.

Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

What I experienced in Cuba, I have become a student of what, how communism operates.

I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.

Current education in science treats all students as if they were going to have scientific careers. They are required to solve problems and memorize lists. For many of them, this kills interest very quickly.

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.

We're going right down the toilet, and it's a made-in-China toilet. I teach MBAs. And I noticed, starting a few years after China joined the World Trade Organization, that a lot of my students were no longer employed. They were still coming to get their MBA, but they'd lost their jobs.

In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.

[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I had something to do and something to say.

I was a Ph.D. student at a very reputable university, I was a Harvard research associate at one of the world's premier leadership institutions.

You would hope that the supposed best of American educational institutions would teach its students about America as an institution.

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.

It's very hard to find good and wholesome, edifying and challenging writing for the students to perform. In my classroom I strive to do that as best as I can.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

The passion/hunger of the student brings out the experience/wisdom of the mentor.

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

Teachers teach and students educate. Students are the only true educators. Historically, every other method of education has failed. Education occurs when students get excited about learning and apply themselves; students do this when they experience great teachers.

They, students have a degree of freedom that nobody else has.

Individuals in a university - students, faculty, staff - can choose to become politically engaged, and a free university should foster a climate in which those are natural choices.

Students typically are at a period of their lives when they're more free than at any other time. They're out of parental control. They're not yet burdened by the needs of trying to put food on the table in a pretty repressive environment, often, and they're free to explore, to create, to invent, to act, and to organize. Over and over through the years, student activism has been extremely significant in initiating and galvanizing major changes. I don't see any reason for that to change.

Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own. . .