584 Quotes About Students

  • Author Sandra Cisneros
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    I learned when I was a student in Connecticut. I had an Italian-American teacher who gave me classes for a week, and then said, "Okay, you're ready." And I wasn't ready. I didn't know how to drive!. But he knew the policeman who gave the test. And that's how I got through.

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  • Author Sara Canning
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    I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.

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  • Author Steve Case
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    I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.

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  • Author Annie Dillard
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    When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

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  • Author Carmen Davis
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    There are unhappy parents, students and staff. The only ones who are happy are the administration.

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  • Author Edsger Dijkstra
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    It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

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  • Author Esther Dyson
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    When I was a young student, I thought grow-ups would come and make things work. Now I realize that grown-ups are just kids with wrinkles.

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  • Author Peter Drucker
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    In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.

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