Students Quotes
When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand ...
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Tom had never found any difficulty in discerning a pointer from a setter, when once he had been told...
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Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neat...
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The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taugh...
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Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stag...
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Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misundersto...
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I don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years...
Show MoreI don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years...
Show MoreI would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the a...
Show MoreFarmers base their livelihoods on raising crops. But farmers do not make plants grow. They don't att...
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Wolf's wool is the best wool, but it cannot be sheared, because the wolf will not comply. With knowl...
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Students of media are persistently attacked as evaders, idly concentrating on means or processes rat...
Show MoreI had all kinds of answers ready for the commissions that called me in and asked me what had made me...
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he give...
Show MoreEducation must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the pole...
Show MoreAs students grow more and more accustomed to assuming materialism and naturalism in their academic w...
Show MoreThe student’s biggest problem was a slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot...
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He’d no longer be a grade-motivated person. He’d be a knowledge-motivated person. He would need no e...
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In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn po...
Show MoreStudents rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoi...
Show MoreThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at ...
Show MoreI tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just rem...
Show MoreThe function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the p...
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We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly stud...
Show MoreEducation in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completio...
Show MoreEducation is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. The job of a teacher is to push the stu...
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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member ha...
Show MoreWe, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the l...
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I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students...
Show MoreIn my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning...
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By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he ...
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Every student, Shadowhunter and mundane alike, knew the name Herondale. It was Jace’s last name. It ...
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He went to work in this preparatory lesson, not unlike Morgiana in the Forty Thieves: looking into a...
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When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform its...
Show MoreTut, tut! I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander,...
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