Top 100 Students Are Quotes
#1. If optimism is the highest form of courage
as I am beginning to believe it is
then these students are all heroes.
Paula Huntley
#2. I've learned to accept the fact that my students are far too busy preparing for their own legal careers to care one bit about the off-campus antics of Professor Burke. I get the impression that my students are vaguely aware of my novels, but are at best mildly curious.
Alafair Burke
#3. The library is ... a university of the people, from which the students are never graduated.
Katharine Sharp
#4. The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
Barnaby C. Keeney
#5. Nonconformists aren't just going against the grain; they're going against the brain. Either their brains aren't taking the easy way out to begin with, or in standing apart from their peers, these students are standing up to their biology.
Alexandra Robbins
#6. College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink
Chuck Palahniuk
#7. Hence [through No Child Left Behind] the state has been given power...to fire all teachers and principles. So here we have an unusual case in which the students are engaged in the performances, but the high stakes have been displaced onto the teachers who are preparing their charges for the exams.
James M. Lang
#8. It's certainly no secret that American students are taught less and less about the canonical literary masterpieces of the past, and there is no shortage of people who believe that what little they're required to learn in school is still too much.
Terry Teachout
#9. Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.
Wendy Kopp
#10. The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.
Suzanne Fields
#11. Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.
Andy Hargreaves
#12. In college, [Christian students] are assaulted by secular relativism, and if we don't prepare them, they will be like lambs led to slaughter.
Charles Colson
#13. I had no interest in history classes. In fact, I used to sleep in history classes, I used to bunk classes. But that is how students are supposed to be, no? I developed an interest in history much later. I have made a few films based on historical facts.
Shekhar Kapur
#14. 'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.
Dianne Feinstein
#15. I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.
Lester Bangs
#16. Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
Harrison Salisbury
#17. Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea.
Kelly Gallagher
#18. What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.
George Bernard Shaw
#19. Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it. Let our young people understand science correctly and hear both sides of the origins issue and then evaluate them.
Ken Ham
#20. At the nation's top 130 colleges and universities, only 9 percent of first-year students are from the bottom half of the nation's household income distribution, while 91 percent are from families in the top half of the income range.
Nicole Baker Fulgham
#21. Actually, most mathematics courses do not teach reasoning of any kind. Students are so baffled by the material that they are obliged to memorize in order to pass examinations.
Morris Kline
#22. The outmoded idea that college should cater to students just out of high school, even though a significant portion of students are in different stages of life.
Anonymous
#23. Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too.
Suzanne Fields
#24. [Students] are being trained to ape arguments, not to intend them.
Paul Lockhart
#25. At this time, all students are to report to the greenhouse."
Scowling, I waved my arm through the spell. It swirled like smoke before dissolving. "Freaking drama queen," I muttered. "How hard would it have been to announce that last night? Or to just do the voice thing?
Rachel Hawkins
#26. When one hears hoofbeats, medical students are taught, one must think of horses, not zebras. But the doctor who sees my blood count will surely think of horses. He will arrive at a perfectly logical conclusion. It will no occur to him that, this time, it is truly a zebra galloping by.
Tess Gerritsen
#27. Students are intense people, they laugh and cry, they break down and rebuild.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#28. Economics graduate students are far more likely to free-ride than other students.
John Brockman
#29. School is like theater. Teachers are like directors, students are like actors, and classes are like theatrical presentations.
Victor Miller
#30. I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology.
Camille Paglia
#31. A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.
Robert Morgan
#32. Research students are numbered in the hundreds of thousands-soon to be millions -and they are no longer distributed superficially and at random over the globe, but are functionally linked together in a vast organic system that will remain in the future indispensable to the life of the community.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#33. How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.
S.I. Hayakawa
#34. In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education ... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.
Malala Yousafzai
#35. An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and where graduating students are no longer indebted to the nation, but increasingly indebted to the Australian Taxation Office - that's no way to improve the quality of education.
Gough Whitlam
#36. Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.
Stephen Covey
#37. What is happening to teachers now across this nation is a disgrace. The attacks on them are a blot on our nation. Teachers and students are not different interest groups. Anyone who demeans teachers demeans education and hurts children.
Diane Ravitch
#38. Students are often in no position to judge 'relevance' until long after the fact.
Thomas Sowell
#39. Some students are in a hurry to begin "real" pranayama. They go right to the later stages without first laying a quality foundation, and their practice often suffers. First find out what is. This is also part of the answer to the question Who am I?
Richard Rosen
#40. Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.
Dan Shechtman
#41. In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.
Dennis Prager
#42. The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
Eric Hoffer
#43. These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where they go to college. Its in their very nature and it is something they expect.
Michael N. Castle
#44. Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
Camille Paglia
#45. We are writing in the age of stylish minimalism that in truth has become even more cautious because of word processing. Nowadays, creative writing students are underwriting rather than overdoing it.
Stephen Kuusisto
#46. The real question my students are asking is "Why doesn't grammar make sense?"
And the answer is illuminating: grammar is a mirror to ourselves.
Gabriel Wyner
#47. I find that students are very strong on my issues, stronger than anyone: anti-death penalty, anti-racial profiling, campaign finance reform, questioning the anti-terrorism bill.
Russ Feingold
#48. You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.
Donna Shalala
#49. Today's students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.
Marc Prensky
#50. More and more students are playing it safe and not taking any risks. You might not succeed, but that's just part of the game.
Walter Munk
#51. Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.
Sugata Mitra
#52. Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.
Alan Huffman
#53. If my students are to meet every inch of their academic potential, I must understand the barriers to education that exist for them.
Kyle Schwartz
#54. Students are suffering under incredibly high tuitions and high student loan interest rates. They graduate from school, and they're having a very difficult time finding a job. They don't feel as though there are honest leaders who are listening to them, and who will be a part of the solution.
Tulsi Gabbard
#55. In many cases students are never exposed to competing ideas within their families, churches, or Christian schools, and as a result they go out into the world unprepared for the intellectual battles they are about to encounter, especially on secular college campuses.
Nancy Pearcey
#56. We need to make sure our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell them honestly when they have it in them to work harder,
Randy Pausch
#57. Sixty-three percent of our university students are female. But you still see violations of women's rights in Iran. A Muslim man can have up to four wives. He can divorce his wife without offering any reason, while it is quite difficult for a woman to get a divorce.
Shirin Ebadi
#58. The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids.
Donna Quesada
#59. Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.
Brian Eno
#60. A second reason African American students are not excelling is that we have all been affected by our society's deeply ingrained bias of equating blackness with inferiority.
Lisa Delpit
#61. American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.
Camille Paglia
#62. The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.
James S. Coleman
#63. When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.
Arlen Specter
#64. Studies show American students are becoming less proficient in math. Experts say we should have seen this coming, but nobody could put 2 and 2 together.
Jay Leno
#65. Students are not to read the Bible, jurors are not to hear it, prosecutors cannot quote from it, and teachers are not to display it.
Ralph E. Reed Jr.
#66. Students are expected to demonstrate creativity and perform service in order to get into college, but no one thinks they should be dumb enough to take them seriously as vocational goals.
William Deresiewicz
#67. I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
Rachel Cusk
#68. Teachers always promise that students are in a "safe place," but most of us figure out that's a lie pretty fast. My very first fire drill was all the confirmation I needed that the worst can happen anywhere, anytime.
Brian K. Vaughan
#69. It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#70. MBA students are not the only ones overconfident about their abilities. The "above average" effect is pervasive. Ninety percent of all drivers think they are above average behind the wheel,
Richard H. Thaler
#71. A new study shows that American students are becoming less proficient in science, and if the trend continues, we will become a nation that's science and chemistry illiterate. And you thought a lot of meth labs are blowing up now?
Jay Leno
#72. It worries me that undergrads and high school students are forced into books they aren't ready for, like Faulkner's, and then they are afraid of putting their toes in the water again.
Alice McDermott
#73. Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.
Camille Paglia
#74. Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar schools as "not black enough." ... Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting.
Bell Hooks
#75. I once went to a fraternity house when I was in high school ... you know, you would rent them during the summer for really cheap, and students are in there. So I met some people who rented a room. I just remember it being very dirty.
Spencer Grammer
#76. Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.
Frederick Sanger
#77. most students are capable of complex thinking and carrying out disciplinary inquiry but have not been given the skills or self-confidence to approach these tasks effectively.21
Ruth Schoenbach
#78. No one, and the liberal cognoscenti least of all, wants to look at why, after decades of throwing money at a rotting educational establishment and years of racial preferences black students are worse off than ever.
Wesley Pruden
#79. In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.
Carol Ann Tomlinson
#80. A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.
Ellen Ochoa
#81. I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.
Camille Paglia
#82. Not only are most of our citizens fathomlessly ignorant of the glories of American literature, a fast-growing percentage of our students are no longer taught much about any works of American art, be they novels, paintings, symphonies or ballets.
Terry Teachout
#83. As far as innovation goes, I can tell you that Korean students are reluctant to step out of line. If I ask questions, nobody raises their hands - not because they don't know the answers, but because they don't want to step out of line.
Dan Shechtman
#84. Students are very engaged by the issues, and it's not surprising because food choices are one of the few powers a child has.
Michael Pollan
#85. It's so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. It's like the world's weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, 'Who is this tool standing up in front of us?'
Libba Bray
#86. I don't understand why Universities only offer undergraduate classes during the day when their professional staff should be smart enough to know that a large percentage of their students are non-traditional.
Heather Chapple
#87. 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.
William Glasser
#88. Teachers teach and students educate. Students are the only true educators. Historically, every other method of education has failed. Education occurs when students get excited about learning and apply themselves; students do this when they experience great teachers.
Oliver DeMille
#89. Everyone wrote our obituary but us and the coaches and the kids who stayed with us. The obit was, 'Vanderbilt will have to leave the Southeastern Conference. All the coaches are leaving, and all the students are transferring.'
Gordon Gee
#90. Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class - or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.
Francine Prose
#92. Good evening," said Ronan. "Students, are you? And do you learn much, up at the school?"
"Erm -"
"A bit," said Hermione timidly.
"A bit. Well, that's something." Ronan sighed.
J.K. Rowling
#93. The single problem plaguing all students in all schools everywhere is the crisis of disconnection. Meaningful Student Involvement happens when the roles of students are actively re-aligned from being the passive recipients of schools to becoming active partners throughout the educational process.
Adam Fletcher
#94. I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.
Martin Luther
#95. University students are rarely able to cope with universals and death is the most embarrassing universal.
Kate Cruise O'Brien
#96. The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.
Deborah Meier
#97. Students are often taught when to use a particular method and how to use it, but not how to effectively write up their research plan and then later their research results.
Patricia Leavy
#98. It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.
Marjane Satrapi
#99. We want Florida to be first for jobs, and we must have a skilled workforce to reach that goal. By investing in science, technology, engineering and math education, we are ensuring our students are prepared for the jobs of the future. Our teachers are essential to preparing our students.
Rick Scott
#100. The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher's actions.
Stephen Brookfield
