Students Today Quotes:

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

- Jacob Bronowski

source: "'The Ascent of Man' ('Knowledge or Certainty')". Documentary TV Mini-Series, Episode 11, 1973.

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Knowledge Education, Knowledge Learning

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

- Albert Einstein

source: "Philomena interview: Steve Coogan". www.sbs.com.au. December 28, 2013.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Live And Learn, Hungry For Knowledge

Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.

- Orison Swett Marden

topic: Cute, Positive, Leadership, Life Philosophy, Inspirational Tattoo

Technology and computers are very much at the core of our economy going forward. To be prepared for the demands of the 21st century-and to take advantage of its opportunities-it is essential that more of our students today learn basic computer programming skills, no matter what field of work they want to pursue.

- Todd Park

topic: Technology, Opportunity, Skills, Students Today

I'm amazed when I think about students today. They know from day one what they are going to be. We didn't. We just coasted. We just knew that things would work out.

- Chinua Achebe

topic: Thinking, Work Out, Today, Students Today

Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.

- Dogen

topic: Short Life, Discipline, Dew, Students Today

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.

- Joseph Stiglitz

topic: Humanity, Mastery, Elements, Social Science, Students Today

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

- Patrick J. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Graduation, Students Today, Upper Middle Class

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

- Robertson Davies

source: Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

topic: Beauty, Achievement, Today, Students Today

College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.

- Elizabeth Warren

topic: Education, Hurt, College, Indebtedness, Students Today

I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don’t hide within it.

- Sonia Sotomayor

source: Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.149, Vintage

topic: Self, Support, Temptation, Students Today