The students were staring at her in the manner of those who have heard of the species 'female' but have never expected… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
That scary moment when your teacher says that they're gonna start calling on random people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As I've started school I have a student-feeling wardrobe and then because I travel a lot, things feel very different for different… — Morgan Saylor Copy Share Image
I certainly do care about measuring educational results. But what is an 'educational result?' The twinkling eyes of my students, together with… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
A tenor player named Bud Revels there at the time. A lot of really nice associations amongst the students. Garry Dial was… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
The role of the problem-posing educator is to create, together with the students, the conditions under which knowledge at the level of… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
One of the most telling things about film school is you've got a lot of students wandering around saying, "Oh, I wish… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for… — Ruben Hinojosa Copy Share Image
When I teach criticism, the first thing I say, and this sometimes pisses off younger - I mean, students, is that, opinions… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
When I'm 18 years old, I'm at a friend's house. And his uncle looks me in me eye - you know, by… — Paula White Copy Share Image
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher. — William Glasser Copy Share Image
I also encourage my students to read literary criticism that is deeply personal yet formally inventive and intellectually expansive... books that offer… — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Children do not learn in school; they are babysat. It takes maybe 50 hours to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. After that,… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
Suppose a student of mine writes in her exam that "morality is completely relative to culture, so nothing is absolutely right or… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
Research students are numbered in the hundreds of thousands-soon to be millions -and they are no longer distributed superficially and at random… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Don’t you know that’s what college is about...students spending years gathering useless information they’ll never use again, going hopelessly into debt, just… — A.L. Jackson Copy Share Image
I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
