Students Quotes

When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

Using a service such as Chegg.com, students can save on average more than $600 a year when they rent textbooks over purchasing them.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.

There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.

We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.

Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all religions, gathering the most fragrant blossoms from the gardens of the world-faiths.

I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.

More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.

How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.

For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'

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

Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status and locations.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.

Train service is particularly vital for the students and employees of Southern Illinois University.

During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays.

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.

You can be a lender who wants to compete and have a better product, but you just can't get to the students. The schools are controlling the access to the students.

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

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

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.

Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic.

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.

I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop.

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming.

The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.

It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students.

I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!

And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.

Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.

When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product.

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students.

I feel strongly that degrees are really valuable to people, and having MOOCs allow for credit down the line will increase the number of students with the confidence and wherewithal to complete degrees.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students.

It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.

Typically, students slide into debt through the extension (by credit card companies) of unaffordable credit lines.

In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.

During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.

Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch.

Good students are good at all things.

I think the world is run by 'C' students.

Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.

A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.

All students can learn.

I know exactly what I will do. I will go and work with the Congress of South African Students.

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

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

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.

I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.