Students Quotes

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

I went to Marion College for writing and I was kicked out of the writing school. I was asked to leave the writing program because I was corrupting the other students.

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.

My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work.

Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.

I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader.

One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities.

Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.

Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?

Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch.

Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students.

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives.

We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?

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.

In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.

I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.

I love the most the students with troubled lives.

When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students.

The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.