Students Quotes - Page 31

Students for a Democratic Society was founded in 1961.

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.

For someone who’s made it clear that her life is superior to every other student’s at this school, you sure make it a habit of pursuing every facet of our boring, worthless lives.

Human reproduction can be a sticky subject—” “Ewww!” groaned a chorus of students

There was no one, when I was in school, who talked about going in and blowing up students. The teachers were very stern and hateable, but nobody ever mentioned murder.

Helmut Walcha was a gifted organist, improviser, and composer! He would play Evensong every week at his church for free, the Dreikönigskirche in Frankfurt, where the audience would consist of only six or so of us students. When he would give a public recital that had a hefty ticket price, the church was packed.

The [Burmese] government appears to be more interested in stamping out political activity than drug addiction. Very few university students on the campus could get away with engaging in political activities, but they seem to be able to get away with taking drugs. We have heard that it is very easy to obtain drugs on the university campuses.

I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.

States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.

I have students whose fathers are voting for Sarah Palin. It's wild.

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.

My basic thought about actors, and I would say this to my students - I love to teach, but I haven't in awhile because I've been fortunate enough to be working - that, "If this is the work you love, there is work for you. That's how the world works. That's the attitude you have to go in there with. You just have to know that it's coming."

I was a brilliant student. I always try to be the best.

Students and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East.

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.

We don't want to just tell [students] who the people are, we don't want to just tell them what happened - we want to show the process by which it formed itself.

Abdellatif [Laâbi] was wildly popular with his students and it wasn't difficult to see why: like them, he knew that average Moroccans were hungry, jobless and desperate. They also knew they were ruled by a paranoid king who was more comfortable with Parisian financiers than his own subjects.

GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

The students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption.

I'm always trying to ask myself both "Who am I as an individual?" and "What are the cultural forces that have made me the person that I am?" How can I understand myself as a cultural creature as well as an individual? I'm really obsessed with that question, and always asking my students to consider it.

I find that I get very excited about what my students are up to and that I get to be the hurdle they need to jump over.

Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.

To control students is to force them to accommodate to a preestablished curriculum.

You know, you can always pick the lit students," he continued, grinning. "Is that so? How?" "They're the ones who walk around wearing berets and that I-know-something-you-don't expression.