Students Quotes - Page 7

My seminar is for highschool students, decent undergraduates, bright graduates, and outstanding professors.

It hit me that the students were talking about me, not God. I was standing before a holy God and robbing Him of the glory that was rightfully His.

It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of all he beholds, hears or conceives; otherwise he will be the slave of illusion, and the prey of madness.

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side

When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.

If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.

Skills training and industry-preparedness are the distinct advantages these students have. At the completion of their degree they have been trained to be biotechnology professionals.

The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.

I was under the care of a couple of medical students who couldn't diagnose a decapitation.

John von Neumann was the only student I was ever afraid of.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.

I am a student of whoever I can learn from. I don't see myself in position like I'm above anybody else and I can never learn, or no one can ever teach me anything. You learn a lot from guys who are just starting off sometimes.

All methods and techniques - and of course all human beings who propound them - are merely instruments to help the student obtain a methodless, technique-free, teacherless state.

I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.

Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.

The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

In my day, the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available.

You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.

Somehow, talking to young students brings you back to reality - it should, anyway.

It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.