Students Quotes
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)
Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way. (Quote by - Mevlana Rumi)
You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for. (Quote by - Josef Albers)
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. (Quote by - Milton Friedman)
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 their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help. (Quote by - William Glasser)
As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years. (Quote by - Bobby Knight)
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. (Quote by - Amos Bronson Alcott)
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 much students have learned. (Quote by - William Glasser)
Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you don't consider your students to be human beings (Quote by - Lou Ann Walker)
Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are heavy. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
And with unwearied fingers drawing out The lines of life, from living knowledge hid. (Quote by - Edmund Spenser)
One mark of a great educator is the ability to lead students out to new places where even the educator has never been (Quote by - Thomas Groome)
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. (Quote by - Og Mandino)
Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, nature was his book. (Quote by - Robert Bloomfield)
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it (Quote by - Allan Bloom)
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 passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less? (Quote by - William Glasser)
Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed. (Quote by - Marva Collins)
Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves--and be free. (Quote by - Cesar Chavez)
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 competent teacher. (Quote by - William Glasser)
A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration. (Quote by - William Lyon Phelps)
Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame? A fitful tongue of leaping flame; A giddy whirlwind's fickle gust, That lifts a pinch of mortal dust; A few swift years, and who can show Which dust was Bill, and which was Joe? (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)
To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States. (Quote by - George W. Bush)
I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star. (Quote by - Carl Sagan)
Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test. (Quote by - Kinky Friedman)
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts…it is to teach them to think. (Quote by - Robert M. Hutchins)
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 an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about. (Quote by - William Glasser)
Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee slumbering, Trim the plot that's in thy keeping, Thou wilt bless the task when reaping Sweet labour's prize. (Quote by - John Stuart Blackie)
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. (Quote by - William Glasser)
Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time. (Quote by - Robertson Davies)
My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'. (Quote by - Jim Carrey)
Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age (Quote by - Robert Martin)
There is a brilliant child locked inside every student (Quote by - Marva Collins)
I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing. (Quote by - Josef Albers)
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know (Quote by - Woodrow T. Wilson)
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve (Quote by - Roger Lewin)
The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort, is not fit to be deemed a scholar. (Quote by - Confucius)
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve. (Quote by - William Glasser)
From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one, Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Wise teachers create an environment that encourages students to teach themselves (Quote by - Leonard Roy Frank)
When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself. (Quote by - Deng Xiaoping)
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 understanding and growth. (Quote by - William Glasser)
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure (Quote by - Sidney Hook)
Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man? (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
