Action Quote by Frederick Lenz

I spend quite a bit of time thinking about my students. I look at them, at their work, I listen to what they tell…

— Phoebe Gloeckner

I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.

— Nikki Giovanni

If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as…

— W. Eugene Smith

Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train or use,…

— Christopher Paolini

I'll have my students try to follow their minds during the course of a day, just to see the way their minds work, the…

— Dani Shapiro

What could be more interesting to students than their own behavior and that of others?

— Wilbert J. McKeachie

It is important to engage students by focussing at what they wanted to do, rather than forcing them to do something.

— Sonam Wangchuk

I was one of those whose school report would always say, 'Could pay more attention.' I spent my time trying to be the centre…

— Suzanne Shaw

I teach a freshman seminar every year, and we delve very, very deeply into their mindsets. They read scientific articles, but we also focus…

— Carol S. Dweck

If students don't think that you care and can relate, especially as they get older, they tune you out. I didn't get it in…

— Pedro Noguera

I know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it's hard to imagine that happening…

— Angela Duckworth

I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they…

— Agnes Varda