Students Quotes

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The assumption of all education is that learning will be directed toward constructive ends and I'm convinced that colleges should support students in their determination… — Ernest L. Boyer
I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global. — Ernest L. Boyer
In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn about the world… — Ernest L. Boyer
Education must prepare students to be independent, self-reliant human beings. But education, at its best, also must help students go beyond their private interests, gain… — Ernest L. Boyer
To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete gains that have… — Ernest L. Boyer
I certainly do care about measuring educational results. But what is an 'educational result?' The twinkling eyes of my students, together with their heartfelt and… — Keith Devlin
I served for 42 years on the board of trustees of the largest Presbyterian seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and we had brilliant people - teachers… — John Templeton
A high school student shouldn't smoke cigarettes. You can't comfort someone with money either. And fooling around with someone's feelings...Trying out someone when you're not… — Cheon Eunbi
Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd… — Aldrich Ames
Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist,… — Archibald Geikie
Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have been known for… — Hannes Alfven
On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time that the idea… — Edward Condon
What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears. — Unknown Author
Television didn't transform education. Neither will the internet. But it will be another tool for teachers to use in their effort to reach students in… — John Palfrey
The act of learning itself is no longer seen as simply a matter of information transfer, but rather as a process of dynamic participation, in… — Unknown Author
The demand for digital textbooks has increased since its introduction to the marketplace. As students become more familiar with them and computers get faster, larger… — Jeff Cohen
The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone.… — D. Michael Quinn
I tell [medical students] that they are the luckiest persons on earth to be in medical school, and to forget all this worry about H.M.O.'s… — Joseph Murray
My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa, so that after… — Wallace Carothers
From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the whole empire of… — John Gorrie

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