Students Quotes

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My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my… — Henry Adams
At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate… — Amar Bose
I hope that the institution will succeed in maximizing students' potential in the same way. I will give all of my stock to this institution.… — Amar Bose
Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth. — E. M. Forster
The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn. — Carol S. Dweck
All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student. — Rex Brandt
At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table… — Philip Zimbardo
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Buildings are tools to reach people, raise disciples, reach students, train up our kids, heal marriages and families and worship God. — Kevin Myers
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is… — Allan Bloom
To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question. — Robert Breault
It just never occurred to me that a school’s policy and student culture could make a big difference in the way I would experience my… — Jaclyn Friedman
Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the… — Bill Walton
If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for… — S I Hayakawa
There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism… — William Ernest Henley
Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last… — Samuel Johnson
The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and… — James A. Baldwin
You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc.… — Gilbert Highet
I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist. — Jacques Barzun
Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be, but… — Francesca Lia Block
Students who don't want to get anywhere are sure to get somewhere. — Gunter Grass
Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice. — Dick Cavett

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