I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the… — Eric Mazur Copy Share Image
I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty ... students perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean.… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
The best thing we can do is give students the tools for constructing their own identities - powerful new tools like African… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family,… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
Connie Heermann is a Freedom Writer teacher. I believe she represents the best of what dedicated teachers can be because she chose… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
"Rocket Night" is my take on bullying culture. I think this is getting better, thanks to the anti-bullying work being done by… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry with the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Instead of asking, "What can I do to make these students perform?" the great teacher says, "Something's not working! I must not… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
The fact that my students could be in a little college in a little college town on the coast of Rhode Island,… — Adam Braver Copy Share Image
Time and again, researchers have shown that students' capabilities are powerfully impacted by the identities they develop for themselves as the result… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Creating a classroom environment that encourages students to take the risk of learning. We've known for a long time that when students… — Carol Ann Tomlinson Copy Share Image
When I start my class I ask the students to write their signatures on pieces of paper and put them on a… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
A psychologist once asked a group of college students to jot down, in thirty seconds, the initials of the people they disliked.… — James Keller Copy Share Image
But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Definition of lecture: An art of transmitting Information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of students without passing through… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
Historically, religion has given people another world to live in, a world more adaptive to the human spirit. As a student of… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
You can recognize in your own reading habits what writers are doing that works and what doesn't. I'm becoming much more aware… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Everyone needs to relax about the freshman. You were all freshman at one point. just leave them alone & live your own life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students. — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
We prepare our students for jobs and careers, but we don't teach them to think as individuals about what kind of world… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide. — Carol Ann Tomlinson Copy Share Image
Definitely, in any teaching situation, there are the clueless students; then there are the ones who get it a little quicker. — Anne Burrell Copy Share Image
Out of 3,500 students in my high school, I was the only openly professing Christian kid. Obviously there were challenges. 'Only old… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction,… — Andreas Schleicher Copy Share Image
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always tell students that the first question to ask about any historical action is this: who makes money out of the… — Carl R Trueman Copy Share Image
American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France. — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn. — Jackie Joyner-Kersee Copy Share Image
“Being a successful student is about more than reading, writing, and 'rithmetic. It's about being a skilled negotiator, a keen observer, and… — Stefanie Weisman Copy Share Image
There was no one, when I was in school, who talked about going in and blowing up students. The teachers were very… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
