Top 1200 College Students Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

My own thinking is often clarified and extended by talking with students.

A Division I college wrestling team has so many guys at such a high level it'd be like having every single guy in the gym being a top 10 UFC guy, and that's who you're competing against every single day. Most everyone has been wrestling since they were 5 years old. It's been their dream to wrestle in college. There's such a high level of intensity.

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.

The students wanted to speak to the government, and the police answered with bullets.

I've been thinking of humorous things since I was... I can't remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

Students deserve a safe place to learn and grow.

Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.

Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.

We're trying to increase the efficiency of students to learn from current instruction.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

What drives success, and the most successful students, is internal motivation.

Whenever I do my concerts, I try to do master classes or students.

The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.

The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes.

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.

I have students whose fathers are voting for Sarah Palin. It's wild.

The library is…a university of the people, from which the students are never graduated.

Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.

To control students is to force them to accommodate to a preestablished curriculum.

Our mission is to help students in need and to democratize philanthropy.

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

Worrisome. It's romanticism, and it's dangerous to have children and students on the street.

I think the problem with Western students is they're very ambitious.

I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.

It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students.

I was under the care of a couple of medical students who couldn't diagnose a decapitation.

We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo.

He would usually study with a small group of students, men and women.

I believe that you have a boyfriend for certain times of your life, and I think the boyfriend who is your most beautiful first boyfriend is not the boyfriend that you're with in college, and your college boyfriend is not your first boyfriend!

I get flack for saying [when I visit a college and give a speech], "This is a nice college, but the really great educator is McDonald's." They hate me for saying this and think I'm a slimy creature. But McDonald's hires people with bad work habits, trains them, and teaches them to come to work on time and have good work habits. I think a lot of what goes on there is better than at Harvard.

I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk.

When I got out of college I worked for DC comics. I worked on staff there and I also freelanced for them for about a decade. I spent two years on staff as an editor right out of college. I'm from Los Angeles and I came back here after a couple of years in New York, to go to Graduate School at USC. I wasn't thinking specifically about animation although while I'd worked at DC.

I was brought up with the sense that I was absolutely no different from my brothers. I went to college thinking I was absolutely no different from the men in college. But that's not true. I'm fundamentally different. The problem was not being able to understand difference and equality at the same time. It's something that we can't seem to comprehend. You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. It's a mistake.

I believe that everyone has a story, and it is important that we encourage all students to tell theirs.

The students of Gallaudet have sent a powerful message across this country!

I advise all my novel students to write in the company of 'Veronica Mars.'

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

We are so humbled and grateful to Google for their devotion to our teachers and students.

The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves.

Before I can effectively discipline students, I have to earn their friendship and respect.

I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble.

I feel blessed I can address students who are the future of India.

Older students know what they want, which is good.

I came to the realization that I started dating my now-wife junior year of college, before you actually went on a date. You didn't take girls from college out to dinner. I've never been on a date. I've never been on a date where I didn't know the end game. I've never casually dated someone. I've only been out to dinner with the woman who would eventually be my wife.

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.

I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible.

The harassment and the bullying that students face is a learned behavior.

I feel that is more important than my work, the influence I have on my students.

And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.

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

What happened is I was going to college in 1950. L. A. City College. A guy I knew was going to an acting class on Thursday nights. He started telling me about all the good-lookin' chicks and said, "Why don't you go with me?" So I probably had some motivation beyond thoughts of being an actor. And sure enough, he was right. There were a lot of girls and not many guys. I said, "Yeah, they need me here." I wound up at Universal as a contract player.

I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.

States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.

I believe that the greatest teachers create thinking students.

I always say to students, 'You're never going to have all the skills, but you have to have a skill.'

Apparently almost anyone can do a better job of educating children than our so-called 'educators' in the public schools. Children who are home-schooled by their parents also score higher on tests than children educated in the public schools. ... Successful education shows what is possible, whether in charter schools, private schools, military schools or home-schooling. The challenge is to provide more escape hatches from failing public schools, not only to help those students who escape, but also to force these institutions to get their act together before losing more students and jobs.

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.