Students Quotes - Page 26

I do not teach students anything. I learn along with them.

Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do those things by doing it for me. Things that I can't do myself, my graduate students should be doing.

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

Do everything you can to learn your craft. Score student films for free, attend conferences, learn music theory - do anything and everything you can.

I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students.

I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.

The only reason psychology students don't have to do more and harder mathematics than physics students is because the mathematicians haven't yet discovered ways of dealing with problems as hard as those in psychology.

He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.

As a student at the time, I kind of felt like my only options as a nonfiction writer were to either jump on the personal essay bus or linger back at the station, hoping that some other heretofore unknown mode of transportation was going to magically show up to take me where I wanted to go.

I went to high school in the 1970s and was a real daydreamer and not the best student.

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.

We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.

In the immortal words of Roberto Duran, we are saying, 'No mas!' We will educate students and then promote them, not the reverse

Just putting a computer in front of a student doesn't make education better.

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

If the students don't want to learn about evolution, they shouldn't be in the course. A biology course that teaches creationism is not a science course, it's a religion course. So the students demanding that creationism be given credence in that course are out of line and are denying the academic freedom of the professor. They are calling into question the scientific basis of the material that's being presented. And students are not in a position to do that.

I love school. I was a great student.

Jeff [Gordon] doesn't sit down and explain things. We don't sit and have meetings where I'm the student. He really teaches by example. I've learned a lot on and off the racetrack.

The etiquette of blurbs means it's not hard to not blurb something (if it's not by a friend, or student): everyone knows how many books you're deluged with. You can just say you never got to it.

We call for a bailout for an entire generation that is basically held hostage by unpayable student-loan debt.

Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.

I was an excellent student before I left school. But I graduated early so that I could work longer hours on '90210.

Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.

To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.