Students Quotes · Page 67

I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do…

— Robert Morgan

The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress…

— Confucius

I always say to students, 'You're never going to have all the skills, but you have to have a skill.'

— Louise Wilson

I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.

— Jim Goldberg

It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more…

— Paul Halmos

I also have my backpack of the tried-and-true, and because it is new to [my students], it becomes fresh to me again…

— Dorianne Laux

Some of my best friends are Hindu or Buddhist or Sikh, my students as well. This is the sea in which I…

— Diana L. Eck

School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with…

— Julian Fellowes

The notion that you go to a public institution in order to learn private information about yourself is absurd. We used to…

— Richard Rodriguez

I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of…

— Jack Kirby

We don't give federal grants to tobacco companies to teach students 'low-risk' forms of smoking on the grounds that 'kids are going…

— Jennifer Morse

Abdellatif [Laâbi] was wildly popular with his students and it wasn't difficult to see why: like them, he knew that average Moroccans…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's…

— George R. R. Martin

I think one of the most rewarding experiences in life is to see people come to Christ and make lifestyle changes. When…

— Jeremy Lin

I had lots of time to read [being a lawyer] what I hadn't read in my school and college days. Being a…

— Khushwant Singh

I set up this magazine called Student when I was 16, and I didn't do it to make money - I did…

— Richard Branson

I've always loved teaching acting. I think it helps me to kind of get back to basics. It's like a refresher course…

— Alfred Molina

I think there's responsibility both at the federal and provincial levels for education in a grander sense - and that is to…

— Roberta Bondar

He is not simply looking into the mirror because he is transfixed by what he sees. Rather, the artist’s success depends as…

— Philip Roth

The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the…

— Nicholas Delbanco

What I don't like about teaching is hearing myself say the same thing. I mean, you just want to sort of shoot…

— Lynne Tillman

I'm often asked by younger filmmakers, 'Why do I need to look at old movies?' I've made a number of pictures in…

— Martin Scorsese

People are always asking, "Is this person in front of me the same on the inside as he or she appears to…

— Parker J. Palmer

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore,…

— Martin Luther

Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own. . .

— Noam Chomsky

I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what…

— Wendy Liebman

Now and then I'll get a student who asks a question that puts me up against the wall and maybe by the…

— Garry Winogrand

I don't know why, but it seems to be a common story for actors and comedians to have a tendency to be…

— Ty Burrell

Title I dollars are well spent. They are really making a difference in the education of students.

— Suzanne Bonamici

Worrisome. It's romanticism, and it's dangerous to have children and students on the street.

— Viktor Yanukovych

I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or…

— Ad Reinhardt

The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P.…

— Gaston Caperton

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres…

— Alan Dundes

I'm still waiting for the day that I will actually use xy+(4 20) > x-5y[2+9-7] in real life.

— Anonymous

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

— Steven Pinker

As a student, I don't have a lot of expenses. I buy food. I play a sport. But that's about it.

— Marques Brownlee

We have to be sure [students] understand that racial, national, ethnic, and religious hatred can lead to horrible tragedies.

— Rod Blagojevich

Start of school year: 4 new packs of pencils, 7 awesome folders, 10 pens, 3 packs of paper and 1 ruler...End of the school year: 1 pencil.

— Anonymous

As much as I like teaching and students, it's a kind of rigor, a discipline, that's against my body.

— Derek Walcott