Students Quotes

2554 Students quotes by 1805 unique authors

We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication which we have… — Stephen Leacock
Now, of course, architecture is a blind spot of our life in America today. How many millions of students go to the university to be… — Frank Lloyd Wright
But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a… — George Steiner
I used to be a chemical-engineering student, but I started studying acting, and I went for a cattle call, up against hundreds of people. They… — Dolph Lundgren
When I was a student almost nobody thought there was any life beyond Earth. Today it's fashionable to say that there is life all over… — Paul Davies
I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world. — Michael J. Fox
For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate. — Thomas Frank
During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing… — Al Franken
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. — Milton Friedman
Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal… — Elton Gallegly
The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why… — Henry Louis Gates
I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves. — Clifford Geertz
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed. — Allen Ginsberg
We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a… — William Glasser
Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying… — William Glasser
The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how… — William Glasser
This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for… — William Glasser
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher. — William Glasser
Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy. — William Glasser
In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open… — William Glasser
Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest… — William Glasser
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve. — William Glasser
Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half… — William Glasser
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then… — Daniel Goleman

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