Students Quotes · Page 82

One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that mathematical problems have…

— George Polya

We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in…

— Victor Papanek

It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked.

— D. V. Ager

Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or…

— Newton Arvin

A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator,…

— Steve Lacy

It is worthwhile to engage in something that is close to one's heart. I had a scholarship. So if I donate money…

— Zhang Xin

I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it…

— Christopher Darden

Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion…

— Walter Pater

During the 1980s, when Japan's economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like 'Japan is Number One,' most Japanese…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Legacies, athletes, and favored racial minorities all receive preferential treatment from admissions committees to the exclusion of academically better-qualified students.

— Michael J. Knowles

He was telling the students about the hypnotic technique of using quotes in a conversation. An idea is more palatable ... if…

— Neil Strauss

Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a…

— Erica Jong

Clapping the longest during the assembly because you're a fearless bastard.

— Anonymous

A great teacher is not simply one who imparts knowledge to his students, but one who awakens their interest in it and…

— Edmund Ware Sinnott

It hit me that the students were talking about me, not God. I was standing before a holy God and robbing Him…

— Francis Chan

I was one of those whose school report would always say, 'Could pay more attention.' I spent my time trying to be…

— Suzanne Shaw

I realized a school doesn't need a School Committee or Trustees or Governors or lumber or approved textbooks. All a school needs…

— Henry David Thoreau

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of…

— Eric Allin Cornell

The two best days of school, the first and the last.

— Anonymous

I think if you look at Sam Raimi and Jim Cameron, those guys know things about filmmaking that almost nobody knows anymore.…

— Dileep Rao

Students, in particular, now find themselves in a world in which heightened expectations have been replaced by dashed hopes.

— Henry Giroux

As a teacher I approach my students purely with the human desire to free them from all scholarly inhibitions, and I tell…

— Hans Hofmann

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for…

— Marva Collins

Good students are good at all things.

— Marissa Mayer

Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?

— Mark E. Smith

I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions.…

— Kate Zambreno

At the undergraduate level, SNU has a unique 'Opportunities for Undergraduate Research' programme. Students are encouraged to undertake research programmes at the…

— Shiv Nadar

There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens

— David J. Skorton

Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if…

— Heather Wilson

Pell Grants aren't 'welfare,' they are a gateway to opportunity for some of our nation's best and brightest students.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to…

— Patrick J. Kennedy

First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death,…

— Catherynne M. Valente

I am confident that for the foreseeable future (barring some catastrophic event affecting economic, energy, electrical, and communications systems), many subpopulations that…

— Tom Peters

I've done a lot of surveys and interacted with a lot of students, and I was shocked to see that at 12…

— Danica McKellar

I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting…

— Dabney Coleman

It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mental powers acquire their full robustness when the cheek loses its ruddy hue, and the limbs their elastic step; and pale…

— Thomas Guthrie

On some level students are essentially the same. They are people with fears and dreams. They laugh and cry over many of…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter…

— Dick Gephardt