I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
While I was in school, a local magazine picked the 10 best students, and they picked me and profiled me in the magazine. — Punit Renjen Copy Share Image
When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Legacies, athletes, and favored racial minorities all receive preferential treatment from admissions committees to the exclusion of academically better-qualified students. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
I always say to my students, 'If you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.' — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I guess it's the age group of students; You are questioning life. Then there are those who actually see their problems reflected… — Trisha Goddard Copy Share Image
I always tell my students to go back after a hundred pages and rewrite from the beginning. It's really harder if you've… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
I go to universities to talk to the students and teach them how to watch movies. Movies have so many elements -… — Andrew Lau Copy Share Image
Whether as a radical student, a community organizer or a far left politician, Barack Obama's ideology has been based on a vision… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The very first experiments with building rockets and firing them off were carried out by students at Cal Tech in 1937, '38… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When Filch wasn't guarding the scene of the crime, he was skulking red-eyed through the corridors, lunging out at unsuspecting students and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In teaching, the other main problem related to type is the students’ interest. Intuitives and sensing types differ greatly in what they… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I… — J. Michael Bishop Copy Share Image
Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or… — Sal Albanese Copy Share Image
I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it's still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. But… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When I started teaching, I would get miffed if a student asked me to write him or her a recommendation for law… — Anthony DeCurtis Copy Share Image
When I'm teaching, I'm not really doing my job if the student who's always comfortable doing wacko stuff all over the page… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Consciousness-Based Education is education that is in most ways exactly like regular education, but with the added technique of Transcendental Meditation. Transcendental… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
We cannot build the new culture for learning to which we aspire in an environment which is depressed and dampened every day… — Robert Carothers Copy Share Image
I don't think there are any students who should not be exposed to a basic financial literacy course. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Never do anything for a student that he he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you'll make him… — Howard G. Hendricks Copy Share Image
My classroom is set up to accommodate the different types of assignments students do. Sitting at a single desk the entire class… — Christine Taylor Copy Share Image
Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My students have shown me so many times that it's not always about being the perfect person in the perfect position -… — Jill Biden Copy Share Image
I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body. — John Kao Copy Share Image
As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person. — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems… — Frank Press Copy Share Image
The students who work with me believe in science in service of society, not science in service of career building. — Donald Sadoway Copy Share Image
I've been very interested in dance from my childhood and I used to teach dance to some students. — Tejaswi Madivada Copy Share Image
I dropped out of high school and I tried to go to community college for a little while. I can't be a… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
