Students Quotes · Page 41

I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the…

— Jesse Stuart

I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.

— Nikki Giovanni

“If we really want our students to become wild readers, independent of our support and oversight, sometimes the best thing we can…

— Donalyn Miller

When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.

— Henri Matisse

I'm prepared to fight as hard as I can against unions entering the University on behalf of our students.

— Ruth J. Simmons

I don't make a lot of mistakes, honestly. I'm an A-student, I'm an Ivy Leaguer. I need those things.

— Jenny Slate

This much I'm sure of. Chances for winning = 1 - (# of math students playing)/ (# of math students cheering). That's a fraction.

— Danica McKellar

Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to…

— Eric Temple Bell

Kids that are allegedly better students are in an elitist class in first and second grade and then they go to their…

— Paul Orfalea

Students today need experience to get a job, and they need a job to get experience. The Chegg Champion program provides students…

— Osman Rashid

I do not belong to this world. I continue to write everything in longhand. If I have to see something on the…

— Elie Wiesel

Common standards ensure that every child across the country is getting the best possible education, no matter where a child lives or…

— Roy Romer

I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter…

— Hans Rosling

And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's…

— Amber Tamblyn

If we can show the world that there are students in all sorts of communities who don't have the material they need…

— Charles Best

The key is that unless there is accountability, we will never get the right system. As long as there are no consequences…

— Albert Shanker

Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delievered in class. The roses came…

— Melissa de la Cruz

I suppose I could read more fiction, but I haven't moved in that direction. I'd like more time even though I spend…

— Mark Helprin

Leonardo da Vinci had such a playful curiosity. If you read his notebooks, you'll see he's curious about what the tongue of…

— Walter Isaacson

There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came…

— George Polya

For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed…

— Helen Vendler

I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and…

— Anne Lamott

I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was…

— Kurt Vonnegut

[Irony] has everything to do with what Tillie Olsen so powerfully imagined in her short story, "As I Stand Here Ironing" and…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Whats the point of studying for finals if they are not final? We are coming back to school next year!

— Azgraybebly Josland

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

— Marva Collins

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

— Solomon Ortiz

Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.

— Jonny Greenwood

I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz people. But…

— Henry Thomas

Teacher: 'Why didn't you do your homework?' Student; 'Sorry, but Kanye West didn't let me finish...'

— Anonymous

I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.

— Ernest L. Boyer

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who…

— Donald Miller

I consider protecting all students, including LGBTQ students, not only a key priority for the Department, but for every school in America.

— Betsy DeVos

Law school has been described as a place for the accumulation of learning. First-year students bring some in; third-year students take none…

— Daniel R. White

Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.

— William Saroyan

I believe that it's fine if the university wants to regulate, for example, bandwidth access, but they should treat the students data…

— Annalee Newitz

I deal with two types of students. Those who have a very deep-seated knowledge of love, which are few, or those in…

— Frederick Lenz

Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.

— Giles Foden

There is no more staunch advocate for taking public dollars and giving them to private schools - private schools that can pick…

— Claudio Sanchez

The best relationship student -teacher is in knowing who is right for you and who you are right for.

— Donnie Burns