Students Quotes - Page 8

The greatest reward for a student is not a good grade. It is the willingness of his teacher to listen to him.

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.

I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested.

According to a new geographic literacy study 4 out of 10 American students couldn't find Iraq on a map. However 10 out of 10 Mexicans could find the U.S. without a map.

I think confidence is something you build gradually, with experience. I've always felt that maybe one of the reasons that I did well as a student and made such good grades was because I lacked confidence. I never felt that I was prepared to take an examination, and I had to study a little bit extra.

In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.

I was a good student, but I didn't like school.

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.

We learn to do by doing.

Education should ennoble the students, but instead it is debasing them. Instead of shaping the young into diamonds, it is turning them into coals. It is not bringing transformation in them, It is not bestowing wisdom.

The proper end of teaching is to lead our students toward autonomy.

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.

Be an example of what you teach. [As a personal trainer], delve into your student's life, know everything about him. Be interested.

I'm a student of history and know that civilizations get lost - they are born and die - and so I recognize the tender mortality of our civilization. I'm not saying I'm separate from the despair of that, but I'm not controlled by the despair of that.

The teachers who get "burned out" are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times.

In the best classrooms, grades are only one of many types of feedback provided to students.

We must prepare students for a future we can neither describe nor predict.

This is what Baylor is all about, .. This is 2012 and it implements faculty expertise and it allows students to experience international culture, not only that, but a culture within a culture.

We aren't quite sure what we're trying to differentiate, and therefore can't quite see how to do it other than giving some students more to cover and some less. That rarely works.

Too much horsing around with unrealistic stances and classic forms and rituals is just too artificial and mechanical, and doesn't really prepare the student for actual combat. A guy could get clobbered while getting into this classical mess. Classical methods like these, which I consider a form of paralysis, only solidify and constrain what was once fluid. Their practitioners are merely blindly rehearsing routines and stunts that will lead nowhere.