Students Can Learn Quotes

#1. All students can learn.

Christopher Morley

#2. Good teachers possess a capacity for connectedness. They are able to weave a complex web of connections among themselves, their subjects, and their students so that students can learn to weave a world for themselves.

Parker J. Palmer

#3. Students who laugh more- learn more. Students who laugh more earn more.

John Cleese

#4. The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.

Edsger Dijkstra

#5. I don't regret not going to college. Students learn up to the age of 21, then stop. I'll always be learning - the things that really matter in life. How to sign on, how to get free food, how to be streetwise.

Caitlin Moran

#6. I do not teach students anything. I learn along with them.

John Marmysz

#7. The message for all students should be: Put down the bong and get to work, because the number of curious, eager-to-learn peers around the world with the means and ambition to get a great college education is about to increase a thousandfold.

Kevin Carey

#8. I regularly take my entrepreneurship students out walking because I want to get them in the habit of noticing and thinking about what they notice. They have to leave their phones behind to learn the basic lesson: Be where you are.

Margaret Heffernan

#9. I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.

Andrew Shue

#10. The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment.

John Walters

#11. I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#12. Education occurs when students set out to educate themselves ... the student will only learn, can only learn, what he chooses to learn ... (An) advantage of not pushing is an innate sense (his) education is (his) responsibility and reward.

Oliver DeMille

#13. Reading and analyzing what you are reading, why you like this or don't like that, can only make you a better writer. So reading is a must! Just like art students study the masters, we too should study and learn from those we adore and/or aspire to be like.

Darynda Jones

#14. Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this history should be taught accurately and based on the best scholarship, not ideology or politics.

Diane Ravitch

#15. College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.

Susan Cain

#16. Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. We now have an economy based on knowledge and technology.

Bill Gates

#17. School should become the place where teachers, not just students, learn.

Vijay Dhameliya

#18. The teacher "teaches" and the students "sit and listen" or learn passively.

Joseph Barrell

#19. If the student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach.

Sidney Sugarman

#20. We try to teach our students how to think ... how to use their brains and imagination. Individual subjects can always be learned by a man who knows how to learn. We teach them to think, and the other subjects arise by themselves ...

Ben Bova

#21. I'm a bit uncomfortable, truth be told, with being seen as an expert, because there is always so much more to learn. I see myself as a perpetual student of the goddess.

Patricia Monaghan

#22. People come to a teacher to learn self-discovery. A teacher who just wants to keep you on a string forever, the god-guru concept, a teacher like that is very abusive. Those people are actually usually taking their students energy.

Frederick Lenz

#23. You can force students to learn, to a certain extent, but students aren't happy and employers aren't happy.

Sugata Mitra

#24. I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it.

Richard Stallman

#25. In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn about the world around them, develop a sense of civic and social responsibility, and discover how they can contribute to the common good?

Ernest L. Boyer

#26. Our students learn more in 30 days than one could learn in 30 years without our training. To really maximize your potential as an umpire, you need to get a solid foundation as soon as you can.

Jim Evans

#27. Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.

Charlie Trotter

#28. When I see imposters like ... Swinburne, [and] Fleay, who know as much early English as my dog, & who fancy they can settle Chaucer difficulties as they blow their noses, then I ridicule or kick them. But earnest students I treat with respect, & am only too glad to learn from them.

James Turner

#29. Children do not learn in school; they are babysat. It takes maybe 50 hours to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. After that, students can teach themselves. Mainly what school does is to keep the children off the streets and out of the job market.

John Taylor Gatto

#30. I think the world is ambivalent about feminism. So I can't blame college students. I think they're reflecting the greater culture's attitude toward feminism. So what I can do is, in ways that are appropriate, advocate for feminism and help the students learn what feminism is about.

Roxane Gay

#31. I can't force my students to learn and mature academically, socially, and emotionally. But I can offer incredible experiences that make them eager to learn.

Paul Solarz

#32. I don't teach my students, I provide the circumstances in which they can learn.

Albert Einstein

#33. I'm a big fan of regular school and regular education. I just learn better in a classroom where I can talk to other students. I want to go to prom and dances and have that social aspect.

Nick Robinson

#34. The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the facts. I mean, that, that can come, but facts can stand in front of the truth and almost obscure the truth. It is imperative that students learn the truth of our history.

Maya Angelou

#35. If a few students come reluctantly to their studies, then let them go. If all students come reluctantly to their studies, then let your scribe be dismissed and find another. For once students have been taught that learning is tedious, difficult, and useless, they will never learn another lesson.

Robin Hobb

#36. students today are educated collecting dots. Almost none of it spent teaching
them the skills necessary to connect dots. The magic of connecting dots is that once you learn the techniques, the dots can change but you'll still be good at connecting them.

Seth Godin

#37. I love to teach, especially high school-aged students, because I like introducing them to the absolute basics of everything they're ever going to learn, the things I wish I had learned at that age. It's the stuff you can always go back to in terms of absolute fundamentals.

Josh Cooke

#38. Do everything you can to learn your craft. Score student films for free, attend conferences, learn music theory - do anything (and everything) you can.

John Keltonic

#39. We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.

Seth Godin

#40. We need to make education so much fun that students can't help but learn.

Sebastian Thrun

#41. For students who have not been required to confess that it is easier to learn theology then live it, it is tempting to think maturity is more a matter of knowing in a matter of living

Paul David Tripp

#42. We should remain students for lifetime. You should be ready and yearn to learn from every moment of life. The basic elements of life need to be associated with learning. The learning process should be a part of your DNA.

Narendra Modi

#43. In Aikido training, we learn from everyone. We learn from the most experience people, but we also learn from new students. Everyone is connected through the heart and develops a mutual understanding. It is important to create a place where that can happen.

Linda Holiday

#44. Education is the system that's supposed to develop our natural abilities and enable us to make our way in the world. Instead, it is stifling the individual talents and abilities of too many students and killing their motivation to learn. There's a huge irony in the middle of all of this.

Ken Robinson

#45. Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

Cesar Chavez

#46. Education is really aimed at helping students
get to the point
where they can learn on their own ...

Noam Chomsky

#47. Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience.

Thomas Ehrlich

#48. Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

Sonny Perdue

#49. We tend to forget that there's nothing sacrosanct about learning in large group classrooms, and that we organize students this way not because it's the best way to learn but because it's cost-efficient,

Susan Cain

#50. I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to share what I've learned with graduate students at SNHU. I'm just as excited for what I'll learn from them.

Leslie Jamison

#51. My advice to photographers is to get out there in the field and take photographs but also if they are students to finish their course, learn as many languages as possible, go to movies, read books visit museums, broaden your mind.

Martine Franck

#52. I travel a lot with my students. We go on the road and even learn about things like doing your laundry and managing your time. And maybe that's not on the test at the end of the year, but it's in the test of life and that's why my classroom is successful.

Rafe Esquith

#53. With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level.

Sue Kelly

#54. School children and students who love God should never say: "For my part I like mathematics"; "I like French"; "I like Greek." They should learn to like all these subjects, because all of them develop that faculty of attention which, directed toward God, is the very substance of prayer.

Simone Weil

#55. My attitude about teaching has always been the same. From early on, I wanted to make yoga accessible so that anyone, regardless of ability, could experience its wonder, joy, and power. I encourage students to question, learn, and develop their own personal practice.

David F. Swensen

#56. We're trying to increase the efficiency of students to learn from current instruction.

Steve Miller

#57. The school of suffering never graduates any students, so ask God to teach to you the lessons He wants you to learn.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#58. 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

#59. The best teacher kindles the fire of knowledge with appreciation and love of students whose hearts so eagerly desire to learn.

Debasish Mridha

#60. Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.

Alfie Kohn

#61. College students can become extremely skilled at a few specialties, but many never learn what to do with those skills in the wider world.

Peter Thiel

#62. The best teacher teaches by inspiring students to learn by showing them the ultimate purpose of learning.

Debasish Mridha

#63. At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Calvin Coolidge

#64. Learn as if you were to become a trainer and you will know more that the rest of the students.

Ben Tolosa

#65. I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. As a matter of pure education, it's shocking that we [the americans] are not compelled to learn the book, which is the source of our language, our common stories, our political structure, our conflicts.

David Plotz

#66. Now, on his way to another lecture, the very thought of entering a room full of students, who still thought it was possible to learn all about something, made him yawn.

Matthew Pearl

#67. In an undergraduate business environment, the best learning experience is the interaction students have with each other. They need to learn from each other as much as from professors and lectures and other teaching tools.

Gerry Schwartz

#68. ...that's what students of life do - they sign up to learn

Danielle LaPorte

#69. Grades become a reward for compliance - but don't have much to do with learning. Meanwhile, students whose grades don't measure up often see themselves as failures and give up trying to learn.

Daniel H. Pink

#70. I am a student of whoever I can learn from. I don't see myself in position like I'm above anybody else and I can never learn, or no one can ever teach me anything. You learn a lot from guys who are just starting off sometimes.

Rashad Evans

#71. When students learn to wrestle with questions about purpose, audience, and genre, they develop a conceptual view of writing that has lifelong usefulness in any communicative context.

John C. Bean

#72. When I was 17, I taught music; I had 65 students a week, and I did that for a year. So that's pretty regular. But it was great to give the gift of music to people, seeing them learn. It's great to influence young people in a creative way.

Matt Schulze

#73. For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.

Alan Lightman

#74. When students ask me today, 'What do you think we should learn from this book?' I tell them, 'Whatever you got out of it.'

Sharon Draper

#75. Television didn't transform education. Neither will the internet. But it will be another tool for teachers to use in their effort to reach students in the classroom. It will also be a means by which students learn outside the classroom

John Palfrey

#76. demonstrated that, in general, students seem to learn better when information is presented in particular ways and at a certain pace. Proper nutrition does have a measurable impact on memory and learning, and physical activity does enhance learning.

Louis Cozolino

#77. I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

Erin Gruwell

#78. Many struggling students who genuinely want to learn fall behind instead. Others are so busy that they miss out on key concepts. Still others learn how to "play school," but never really learn important objectives in their courses.

Aaron Sams

#79. I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.

Agnes Varda

#80. It's time for students to learn that Life is Triggering. Once they leave college, they'll be constantly exposed to views that challenge or offend them. There are a lot of jerks out there, and no matter what your politics are, a lot of people will have the opposite view.

Jerry A. Coyne

#81. This is precisely why one significant mistake students sometimes make in learning math and science is jumping into the water before they learn to swim.

Barbara Oakley

#82. We created a show and a scenario for college students where they can take what they learn in class every day and apply it to the real world.

Ross Martin

#83. This is a great tool for students as the book gets right to the heart of learning how to learn and engaging your whole brain.

Dominic O'Brien

#84. Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable.

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

#85. The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.

David Gergen

#86. Students take ownership of their education when they learn from one another

Susan Cain