Students Quotes · Page 26

Derek Bok's most recent book, Our Underachieving Colleges, is worth scrutinizing. . . . Bok is . . . on solid ground…

— George Leef

The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving…

— Naveen Jain

I personally believe it's really important for the students to experience a particular culture.

— Robert J. Dolan

There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students…

— Edmund White

A true Educator locates the intelligence and abilities within another, drawing them out for all, even the student, to see. And then…

— L. Ron Hubbard

I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a…

— Hyman Bass

The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to…

— Aleister Crowley

Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled…

— Archibald Geikie

Books of natural history aim commonly to be hasty schedules, or inventories of God's property, by some clerk. They do not in…

— Henry David Thoreau

The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Everything we know has its origin in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. Then…

— Anonymous

In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his…

— Natalie Goldberg

I was a brilliant student. I always try to be the best.

— Anibal Cavaco Silva

I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic…

— Jeb Bush

For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga.

— Gish Jen

It's important to teach students about the reality of the system, that it is in fact the case that they are being…

— Michelle Alexander

How do you manage your online identity? It's something I talk about with my students all the time.

— Hasan M. Elahi

All learning is remembering. A good teacher causes students to remember what they already know.

— Neale Donald Walsch

“The enemy of learning is knowing.”

— Steve Ahn

Unfortunately the student often feels guilt for not living the type of life that their Teacher suggested, or they feel that they…

— Frederick Lenz

To control students is to force them to accommodate to a preestablished curriculum.

— Alfie Kohn

Student debt is crushing the lives of millions of Americans. How does it happen that we can get a home mortgage or…

— Bernie Sanders

I was a good student in school.

— Kenan Thompson

Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.

— Herman Melville