My Students Quotes

My Students Quote of the day

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.

The most successful classes are those where the teacher has a clear idea of what is expected from the students and the students know what the teacher expects from them.

You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow.

In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.

It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good student.

We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future - you create the future. The future is created through hard work.

What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.

Instead of bailing out Wall Street for the fourth time.. let's bail out the students.

In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own!

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.

Every student has the ability to be a successful learner.

Students from the same teacher will differ in their skills

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

If we expect students to be winners and expect them to do well, they will rise to the occasion.

Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance

The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.

In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

...education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time......that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power.

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

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.

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

If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .

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

Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.

My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.

I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you too can be president of the United States.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

Four things will shame the students of knowledge: Criticizing people, praising themselves, not teaching the knowledge,and not practicing what they know.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it.

A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.

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

We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.

I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.

You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.

The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.

It's evolution, man. Eventually the student becomes the teacher.