Students Quotes - Page 9

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.

Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should we continue to compel students to try to pass them?

I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.

I'm a big fan of music, I'm a student of music, and I just wanna learn and keep enhancing my education about the music.

I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.

I am a student of whoever I can learn from.

I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.

For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test.

I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies, I was constantly being physically abused because the whipping of students was permitted.

The best teachers coach their students and the best coaches are great teachers.

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

Race is not the only differential in South Africa, in the new South Africa, where all schools are open, mother-tongue education is a very big issue. One of the main reasons why the dropout figure of black students, and the lower pass rate of black students in the present education system, and it was like that before, was that we didn't have mother-tongue education.

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.

I've always felt that I did well as a student because I lacked confidence.

College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink

Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.

I'd require that every university, public or private, be governed by the constitutional standards regarding freedom of expression and due process. There is no reason for treating adult college students any differently in the university setting than in the outside world.

I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

One thing we can do really well for our students is to help them figure out their identity.

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.

I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble.

In school, I wasn't a very good student - I was very irresponsible and never did the studying but always liked to get the laugh.

By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready-for nothing in particular.