Quotes About Middle School Students

#1. By middle school, students have an image of themselves as readers or nonreaders. Students who do not read see reading as a talent that they do not have rather than as an attainable skill.

Donalyn Miller

#2. Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism; we must see the implications of a theory for what they are and not for what we would like them to be.

Kevin Michel

#3. 'Sara' was the first film project I worked on as an actress; it's a short film.

Jessica Clark

#4. You must ask yourself this: Will you decide when love's going to work and when it isn't? You have been pronouncing too much and feeling too little.

David Levithan

#5. I say, let us think. Let each one express his thought. Let us become investigators, not followers, not cringers and crawlers. If there is in Heaven an infinite being, he never will be satisfied with the worship of cowards and hypocrites.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#6. Do you remember his science project, Harry Sue, on the trajectory of spitballs? I tell you, that modest little display taught our students more about physics than I could accomplish in a weeklong unit at the middle school

Sue Stauffacher

#7. Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.

Cecily McMillan

#8. My heart is aching for the people of Nice, Italy. I am so sad that I have no words to express my frustration.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

Madonna Ciccone

#10. Personal happiness seems mysteriously and frustratingly elusive. Even when people achieve it, they can't hold onto it. That is the greatest clue, the biggest hint, the surest sign that something's amiss.

Neale Donald Walsch

#11. we'll be going up to London

J.K. Rowling

#12. I'm far more ready to go with the flow now because I am more accepting of myself.

Raquel Welch

#13. Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had a good answer for them. It took me a long time to realize they were right.

Rick Riordan

#14. When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.

Christine Gregoire

#15. Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.

Daphne Koller

#16. People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

Wayne Dyer