Students Quotes

2554 Students quotes by 1805 unique authors

It's the first thing I tell my students: If you could understand, really understand, that no one needs to read your work, then your writing… — Unknown Author
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only… — Simone Weil
It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think. — Unknown Author
We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future - you create… — Jaime Escalante
I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it. — Jaime Escalante
The student is best taught who is told the least — Unknown Author
One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any… — Leon Henkin
Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This may not be… — Alfred Renyi
A good problem should be more than a mere exercise; it should be challenging and not too easily solved by the student, and it should… — Howard Whitley Eves
Many teachers are concerned about the amount of material they must cover in a course. One cynic suggested a formula: since, he said, students on… — Paul Halmos
A good student is one who will teach you something. — Irving Kaplansky
The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students. — Henri Lebesgue
The first and foremost duty of the high school in teaching mathematics is to emphasize methodical work in problem solving...The teacher who wishes to serve… — George Polya
Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting… — Keith Henson
Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the… — Howard Nemerov
I sometimes tell students the only guarantee you've got is the music and no-one can take that away from you. Only you can take that… — Mike Stern
A child who is disciplined will be more obedient and also more organized as a student. — Bill Cosby
Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not… — Benjamin Barber
The superior student listens to the Way and follows it closely. The average student listens to the Way and follows some and some not. The… — Laozi
The students wanted to speak to the government, and the police answered with bullets. — Vusi Mahlasela
I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the… — Daniel Kahikina Akaka
Derek Bok's most recent book, Our Underachieving Colleges, is worth scrutinizing. . . . Bok is . . . on solid ground in pointing out… — George Leef
I decided to go to Latin America because many of my students in Washington emigrated from this region and inspired me to learn more about… — Jenna Bush
There is nothing to prevent you from pushing your propaganda, to push your programme out to the students or with the public at large…and if… — Lee Kuan Yew
If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it. — Lee Kuan Yew

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