Students Quotes - Page 25

I learned how to direct by being in the trenches of movies. Getting to be a student from the inside looking out, and if you're a respectful observer you can sponge lots of information. That was my film school.

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.

Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.

As a university student, I tried hard to write poems in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time.

Be careful. I wouldn’t want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language.” I laughed. “No problemo.

That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there.

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

Arts education must be part of our education solution because it works for all students.

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?

I was a good student in school.

And I'm a Hailsham student - which is enough by itself sometimes to get people's backs up.

University students are rarely able to cope with universals and death is the most embarrassing universal.

Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company and later my degree course all helped form my love of telling stories and directing.

When Ronald Reagan became president, students could no longer get food stamps.

Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.

It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students.

Even as I've become more reticent about the political possibilities of the academic space, I want to note that students have played significant roles in insurrectionary activity across the globe for decades and centuries, and I don't think that we've crossed some threshold where that's never going to happen again. We still need to take the university space quite seriously.

There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.

The teacher "teaches" and the students "sit and listen" or learn passively.

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.

Alan [Ferber] is a great trombonist and composer. I'm thankful that I got some associations like that through peers and former students. That's kind of what it is.

I was studying with Joe Allard, which was great, as a saxophone student. Being able to study with Joe Allard was an incredible experience.

I think students ought to have the right to protest, but not to the point of anarchy.

It's not about being digital. It's about students who are born digital.

Twelve million students take the PARCC or Smarter Balanced. Now, if 5 percent opt out, that creates - that triggers some restrictions, and 5 percent of 12 million is only 600,000.