Students Quotes

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As any good teacher knows, the methods of instruction and the range of material covered are matters of small importance as compared with the success… — Noam Chomsky
For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again to the otherwise… — Robin Winks
I got so tired of hearing those proverbs when I was a child. Now I use them all the time. Sometimes they are the best… — Marva Collins
O truly enjoy... [a university], the individual-student or faculty-must harbor a well-calibrated sense of annoyance at the institution, entering into a muted adversarial relationship...both in… — Robin Winks
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion. — Quintilian
Teachers learn from their students' discussions — Rashi
The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was. — David McCord
The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to have students learn… — Benjamin Bloom
The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery. — Seymour Papert
There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And… — Bennett Cerf
What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this love in their students, and… — Joseph Epstein
Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are. — Parker J. Palmer
You have a teacher talking about his gayness. (The elementary school student) goes home then and says "Mom! What's gayness? We had a teacher talking… — Michele Bachmann
I am convinced that there is no simple formula or technique that I could give you or that you could give your students that would… — Richard G. Scott
I want to be a jazzman until the day I die. To help keep that motion, momentum and movement going, for myself, for my students,… — Cornel West
The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking,… — Adam Smith
When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists. — Thomas J. Sargent
I am convinced that both markets and free trade are good, but the traditional answer that we give to students to explain why they are… — Paul Romer
It should be possible to emphasize to students that the level of employment is a macroeconomic issue, depending in the short run on aggregate demand… — Paul Krugman
In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on… — Kenny Marchant

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