Students Quotes · Page 13

I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar...…

— Alan Dershowitz

I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn't until I got to college that I said, 'Oh! This…

— Giuliana Rancic

The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an…

— Robert Aris Willmott

I think my deepest criticism of the educational system . . . is that it's all based upon a distrust of the…

— Carl Rogers

I think my philosophy has evolved over the years. I started teaching almost 15 years ago and I've learned that how one…

— Tod Goldberg

I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I…

— Burt Bacharach

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people…

— Barack Obama

I am a morning person and start work, whether composing, rehearsing, preparing syllabi/tests, or proofing an article or manuscript, early in the…

— Barbara Harbach

“Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stages of their adolescence. A certain streak of…

— Hermann Hesse

I did not come to collect students, but to train teachers.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

I feel compassionate, because I know [students] all have to go down this road of suffering and it's going to be tough.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

— Hermann Hesse

Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument…

— Harry Lloyd

I love basketball, but playing basketball doesn't fully define who I am. I was always a good student, too.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has…

— Peter Warlock

It transmitted because on the campuses, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was recruiting, was organizing. Students for a Democratic Society was founded at…

— Bill Ayers

Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.

— Erno Rubik

The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year…

— Alex Tabarrok

Students will read if we give them the books, the time, and the enthusiastic encouragement to do so. If we make them…

— Donalyn Miller

You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.

— Yair Lapid

I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade…

— James W. Loewen

[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I…

— Pauline Oliveros

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues,…

— William Glasser

In 1975, when my students were kidnapped by rebels, I was accused of hiding instead of trying to save them, and of…

— Jane Goodall

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends…

— Jodi Rell