Quotes tagged ‘Students’

(17 total)

“The evidence is clear: Academic excellence is not a strong predictor of career excellence.”

“Well, when you say 'classmate', it sounds like we take naps together and eat paste, but what's great about community college is that a lot of the students are just as mature as the teachers.”

— Jon Pollack, Tim Hobert, Jeff Winger, Joel Mchale, imdb.com

“Mr. Anthony DeMartino: And why are we going to engage in simulated combat? Daria. Daria: Because no high school education is complete until you've chased your fellow students around the woods with toy guns?”

— Glenn Eichler, Daria Morgendorffer (voice), Tracy Grandstaff, imdb.com

“Yes, we may think we're all destined to play certain roles, but sometimes those roles can unexpectedly change: a nervous student may discover a hidden confidence; a long time wife may confront a harsh reality; a busy mother may find her attention needed elsewhere; and a woman who wanted to do a litt…”

— Marc Cherry, David Flebotte, Mary Alice Young, Brenda Strong, imdb.com

“Lucy: Great class, Doctor D! Even better than the one you did with interpretive dance. J.D.: Thanks, Lucy. I like to call it 'teacher-tainment.'”

— Josh Bycel, John 'J.D.' Dorian, Zach Braff, imdb.com

“Every class has a student like that, one who'll study what he needs to without supervision, who you know will one day attend a top college and get an excellent job. A child who's innately capable.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“A rather serious—maybe too serious—university student from another country came to Hafiz to personally ask for his permission to translate some of Hafiz's poems into a little book. And he said to Hafiz, ‘What is the essential quality in your poems that I need to incorporate in my translations to mak…”

— Hafiz of Persia, bbc.com

“The political scene in our country has never been so marked by student action, and it is not reckless to predict that this is no aberrant phenomenon but a fundamental shift in social patterns that will distinguish this era from others past.”

— Bernice King, twitter.com

“Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing.”

— Deng Xiaoping, amazon.com

“When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.”

— Deng Xiaoping, amazon.com

“The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way.”

— Howard Gardner, questia.com

“Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can’t afford the time to think.”

— Noam Chomsky, goodreads.com

“The first task of a competent teacher is to teach his students to acknowledge inconvenient facts. By these I mean facts that are inconvenient for their own personal political views. Such extremely inconvenient facts exist for every political position.”

— Max Weber, amazon.com

“Join more university clubs. Of course university is not only about coursework; it’s also a chance to meet new people and get involved in all kinds of activities and clubs.”

— Laura Bridgestock, topuniversities.com

“It's the inspired student that continues to learn on their own. That's what separates the real achievers in the world from those who pedal along, finishing assignments.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, sciencealert.com

“Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.”

— Stephen Fry, books.google.com

“We often hear that success is ‘all about the people you know’ — as if it’s just a matter of equal-opportunity relationship building. We rarely talk about how one knows them, or about the privilege that has become a prerequisite to knowing the right people. I sometimes get calls and emails from frien…”

— Darren Walker, nytimes.com