I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb. — Tommy Hilfiger Copy Share Image
Skill sheets, workbooks, basal reader, flash cards are not enough. To convey meaning you need someone sharing the meaning and flavor of… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
Students, we believe in you & we are praying for you as you walk the hallways of your schools today! You are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys. — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
Not paying attention in class, then regretting it when your teacher starts passing out a sheet of paper. -__- — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I tell my students, if you are going to spend days and months and years with someone, you had better like that… — Susan Nagel Copy Share Image
From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their… — George Lucas 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
'Hard-working' is what gets the job done. You just see that year after year. The students who thrive are not necessarily the… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The vast majority of students probably emerge from college with an adequate grasp of no more than a single method of inquiry.… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Visionaries have the unique ability to dream of what's possible and then make it a reality. We are excited to watch these… — Michael Dell Copy Share Image
We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
I picked ducks in a tub in my dorm room. I'd hang deer in the doorway between the bedroom and the little… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Hoping to see karate included in the universal physical education taught in our public schools, I set about revising the kata so… — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
True renunciation can be attained by anyone - whether a millionaire, parent, student, politician, farmer or engineer. It's not what you have… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
I do like the idea of the novel of repressed college students being a contemporary novel of courtship! I guess what I… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
It used to be that you would go into a writing program and what you would learn was how to write a… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As Deborah Rhode describes, “When 1,100 Michigan elementary students were asked to describe what life would be like if they were the… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Do question, even the basics! You will be a fool for once! If you don't, you will be, for a lifetime..” — Himmilicious Copy Share Image
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In Zen, and in other forms of self discovery, we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information, blocks of attention,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen. — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
I hate that weird stare you get when you walk back into the classroom after going to the bathroom. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties. — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if you are a musician, a business leader, a president or a student. We all have a responsibility to… — Shakira Copy Share Image
There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens — David J. Skorton Copy Share Image
My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
We have been teaching 'Paradise Lost' and 'Julius Caesar' to the students but we are not teaching them 'Kalidas' or Indian drama… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
I am a student of universal spiritual principles, and I read theology and spiritual writings, so my grasp of basic spiritual principles… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We… — Frank Murphy Copy Share Image
Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
You can be a lender who wants to compete and have a better product, but you just can't get to the students.… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
“A large number of students don’t read to understand, they read because an examination is around the corner.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
