Poor Students Quotes

#1. Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa.

Peter Schjeldahl

#2. New York rushed to get students into early childhood programs, but the research is clear that it has to be high quality. What we are giving poor kids now in early childhood is nothing like what we are giving middle-class kids in most places.

Pedro Noguera

#3. The works of John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, and Karl Marx had been forbidden. Students' libraries and clubs had been closed; and informers had been planted in the lecture halls. Entry fees had been raised fivefold to bar academic education to children of poor parents.

Isaac Deutscher

#4. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

Marva Collins

#5. Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side

Robert M. Sapolsky

#6. You have a very poor neighborhood. You have students that are required to go to school. They have no money, no habit of work. What if you paid them in the afternoon to work in the clerical office or as the assistant librarian?

Newt Gingrich

#7. Rich People are students throughout their life. Poor People's learning stops after formal education.

Abhishek Kumar

#8. Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

Maggie Gallagher

#9. If the students see that rules are for everyone ... for professors too, not just for poor helpless students who get nothing but suffering out of the system ... why, the positive effects on school discipline should be tremendous.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#10. SAT scores play an important role in admissions, even though they are poor predictors of college performance.87 This benefits affluent students, who are far more likely to enroll in private test preparation and take the test multiple times to boost scores.

Elizabeth A. Armstrong

#11. True religion must raise to work at the bar and the bench, on the couch and on the streets, in the cottage of the poor man and in the penthouse of the entrepreneur, with the fisherman that is catching fish and with the students that are studying.

Abhijit Naskar

#12. The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is an excuse for failure, violent behavior, or indulgence in drugs.

Roland Merullo

#13. Niggerization is the result of oppression
and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized.

Florynce Kennedy

#14. Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes.

Annie Dillard

#15. 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.

Marva Collins

#16. Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

Santiago Durango

#17. A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests.

Alma Gluck

#18. I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz people. But going back was strange, and perhaps stranger for the other students.

Henry Thomas