584 Quotes About Students

For the first time in a decade I felt a voice rising from deep inside my soul. It cried out ‘what will you be today?’ and I heard ‘relentless’ booming from the rafters inside an old gym as Sami and a group of young men chased dreams and trophies while their fathers went to war.

The students whipped their heads back to look at her; a blaspheming teacher was as exciting as a fight.

Needless to say, that meant that the Braekbills student body was quite the psychological menagerie. Carrying that much onboard cognitive processing power had a way of distorting your personality. And to actually want to work that hard, you had to be at least a little bit screwed up.

It's really seeing student involvement … as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and their desires for their educational experience.

The work of meaningful student involvement is not easy or instantly rewarding. It demands that the system of schooling change, and that the attitudes of students, educators, parents and community members change.

За повечето ректори университетът е просто сбор от цифри, а студентът - факултетен номер, който внася допълнителни средства в бюджета. В известен смисъл, с окупациите ректорите за пръв път узнаха какви са автентичните студентски стремежи.

Once, it was possible to learn things, and to be shaped by your learning, he says. Once, to be a student meant to be formed by what you learned. To let it enter your soul. But today? We're drowning in openness, he says. In our sense of the possible. We're ready to take anything in - to learn about anything, and therefore about nothing.

Never judge a student's skill on the bases of his academic success; you may never know that he could be tomorrow's Einstein.

شاگردى كه كمتر از معلمش بداند، دنيا را به عقب مى راند؛ شاگردى كه به قدر معلمش بداند، جهان را متوقف مى كند.