Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Human reproduction can be a sticky subject—” “Ewww!” groaned a chorus of students — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him. — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed. — Bill Parcells Copy Share Image
[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students). — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Anytime students shout down a speaker who says something different, this is not good. — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that we can do this… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Lke so many depressive, creative, extremely lazy high-school students, I was saved by English class. — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture. — Shelley Berman Copy Share Image
I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the… — Martin Lewis Perl Copy Share Image
“Students Are Wise Who listen to what the Teacher Tells them all the time http://www.wikinut.com/in/uiinof ” — Smart Oyejide Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn't forget that schooling was changing me and separating me… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I was a good student when I was a kid, and I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
That's where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The best answer to the question, 'What is the most effective method of teaching?' is that it depends on the goal, the… — Wilbert J. McKeachie Copy Share Image
War at home is matched by a war on youth. I wrote about this recently. Young people graduate with an average of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
As far as YU faculty and students are concerned, the love for Israel is very strong. Probably about three thousand of our… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“You're funny.' Phoebe passed me the last chocolate cupcake. 'And I always thought your friends were laughing over their own farts.' 'Ninety… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
We economists, in our classes, teach students that to some degree, price discrimination is actually a good thing; that it allows you… — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
If I ever treated being gay as a problem, then I'm going to continuously find problems, I'm never going to find solutions.… — Jason Bailey Copy Share Image
In fact, I think that our society expects schools to get students to the point where they do things only for outside… — Kirsten Olson Copy Share Image
This is a perfect example of the power and ridiculousness of a website like Wikipedia. I did give a slightly contentious graduation… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
In one sense, no act of reparation will be satisfactory for those whose lives were so under-valued both as human beings held… — Wilton Daniel Gregory Copy Share Image
When I was a very young student I loved and admired the work of Sam Beckett, who is famously pessimistic, and whose… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Public education for some time has been heavily focused on what curricula we believe will be helpful to students. Life-Enriching Education is… — Marshall B. Rosenberg 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
Dear gym teacher, how the hell are you fat? Sincerely, you teach exercise for a living! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I meet them in this stadium, strangers at opposing desks until I wave my red flag.” — Marina Leigh Duff Copy Share Image
I have a very strong passion to sing and paint. I'm really a student. — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution. — Charles Bowen Copy Share Image
Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries. — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image