Quotes and Sayings About Students
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His students were hardly in a position to tell him when he was getting windy, and he had recently noticed, as most professors did after a while, that his lectures mysteriously seemed to be getting longer with time.
-- Aaron ElkinsSource : Aaron Elkins (2014). “Dead Men's Hearts”, p.51, Open Road Media
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One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
-- Abdul Kalam -
I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
-- Abdullah Ahmad BadawiSource : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
-- Abraham FlexnerSource : Abraham Flexner (1910). “Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching”
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If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.
-- Ace Antonio Hall -
If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
-- Ad ReinhardtSource : Ad Reinhardt (1975). “Art-as-art: the selected writings of Ad Reinhardt”, Viking Adult
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As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.
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Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background,
-- Ahmad Jamal -
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I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
-- Al McGuire -
Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
-- Alain de Botton -
In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.
-- Alan Dundes -
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I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
-- Alan Dundes -
Marshall is the coach's coach. No one is more of a listener, who learns from us (his students) from what we say or do not say. Taking from what he has heard, he molds for all of us a program to make us and our people better for having been in his presence.
-- Alan Hassenfeld -
As a student of life I just want to be constantly progressing mentally, physically, and spiritually.
-- Alex Caceres -
What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well.
-- Alex Tabarrok -
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You know, you can always pick the lit students," he continued, grinning. "Is that so? How?" "They're the ones who walk around wearing berets and that I-know-something-you-don't expression.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.
-- Alfie Kohn -
John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater strain it imposes.
-- Alfie Kohn -
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.
-- Allan Bloom -
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The students [of the 60s] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents conspicuous consumption.
-- Allan Bloom -
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.
-- Allan BloomSource : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
-- Allan Bloom -
A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests.
-- Alma Gluck -
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The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.
-- Amartya Sen -
Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
Students and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
I was a brilliant student. I always try to be the best.
-- Anibal Cavaco Silva -
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I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
I am acting at university, and I have really enjoyed doing student drama.
-- Anna Popplewell