The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.
Students who are put in a university who aren't qualified tend to have lower graduation rates, they have lower grades, they have lower bar passage rates. You can demonstrate that. You are putting them in position where they are not set up to succeed.
I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student Union affairs and in student politics.
The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian.
Certainly, grades only matter so much when you're in Hollywood. But I became an utterly motivated, devoted, committed student. I was a good student because I was convinced that it would somehow help me in my quest to become a filmmaker.
I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a bad student and had such bad grades that I wasn't going to get into any really good college so I fell back on acting.
White liberals are the most racist people I've ever met in my entire life. They define everything by race. They want people to be able to get into college with lower grades and lower school scores simply because they are African American. That's insane.
I went to Illinois. Most people think I went to Princeton or something. But I was never a diligent student.
I know there are limits to what a coach can accomplish in improving speechmaking unless the subject is a diligent student of himself.
A paradigm is a powerful theoretical and methodological framework which defines the working lives of thousands of intelligent and disciplined minds. And paradigms do not attract the loyalty of such minds unless they 'work'. One of the first things a graduate student learns is that if there is a discrepancy between the paradigm and what he or she has discovered, then the automatic assumption is that the paradigm is right and the student wrong. Just as a good workman never blames his tools, so the diligent student never blames his paradigm
Underestimating grades has serious consequences for a student's choice of university, and their future.
Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.
I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy.
I was a very good student until about sophomore year, and that's when I just became so disillusioned with the whole thing that I just became an awful student. I was still making good grades. But I was cutting class three days a week and faking papers that I got off the internet.
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.