Browsing Topic Best Students Quotes

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.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.

An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.

A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.

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

I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer…education as the practice of freedom…. education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

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?

In order to be a teacher you’ve got to be a student first

In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.

Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.

Women wear many hats in their lives. Daughter, sister, student, breadwinner. But no matter where we are or what we’re doing, one hat that moms never take off is the crown of motherhood. There is no crown more glorious.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery – the source of truth.

The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.

Politics was good a hundred years ago. Today, politicians have no ability to solve any problems because they are not students of behavior. They are not students of agriculture, oceanography – they know nothing about the factors that operate the world.

…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.

Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.

My words itch at your ears till you understand them

Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of ‘race, class and gender.’

When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

There is apparently a blacklist floating around McGill University targeting & doxxing students who work in solidarity with Palestinian human rights & liberation. As an alum of McGill and SPHR – I am not surprised that the University is failing to address this.

The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.

I remind myself of the power of thought and how it’s my obligation as a citizen (and student) of humanity to propel compassion.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

Building on our Young South-east Asian Leaders Initiative, I’m hopeful that we can continue expand the ties and cooperation between our young people and students.

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.

All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools – things remote from the student’s experience and need.

The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student’s lamp.

‘No Child Left Behind’ requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.