Top 1200 Good Student Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

...methods are more important than facts. The educational value of a problem given to a student depends mostly on how often the thought processes that are invoked to solve it will be helpful in later situations. It has little to do with how useful the answer to the problem may be. On the other hand, a good problem must also motivate the students; they should be interested in seeing the answer. Since students differ so greatly, I cannot expect everyone to like the problems that please me.

I used to submit to anthologies and magazines when I was a student - but I knew I was never going to be picked up.

As a student, I was more gifted in history and geography. Things like arithmetic were not my strength.

I don't make a lot of mistakes, honestly. I'm an A-student, I'm an Ivy Leaguer. I need those things.

I'm not an engineer. I did not study engineering in school. But I was a super ambitious student growing up.

It just felt wrong that the kids I was teaching didn't have the same access to materials that I did when I was a student.

In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.

I am a student of Ghulam Ali, who was like my guru. I changed my name in his honour.

The Boston College community took a personal interest in my success, not only as a student but as a human being.

Teach First is uniquely placed to help universities broaden the social background of their student intake.

Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.

I was a very studious student and usually got A's. I did not like school, because I wasn't popular - I was a nerd.

When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.

You never know who you're talking to. Don't limit a young student's dream, because that's how we change the world.

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

And I'm a Hailsham student - which is enough by itself sometimes to get people's backs up.

There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens

Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans.

I love being a Duke student, and continuing to be part of the university culture is something I don't take for granted.

Ekta was an average student, and it's wonderful to see her success. She has tremendous conviction.

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.

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

Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.

The most important thing an institution does is not to prepare a student for a career but for a life as a citizen.

I wasn't shuffling from one sport to the next that much. I had downtime to just be a high school student.

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

You're thinking to yourself, 'How is it possible that I am going to pay back $150,000 in student loans? I'm never going to pay that back. What am I going to do?' Listen to me and listen to me good, class of 2013. I want you to think back to all of these things you said to yourself, 'I can't do that. I can't palpate a cow. And what's worse, palpating a cow or taking semen from a horse?' But you did it, didn't you?

If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.

There are 43 million people who are locked into predatory student loan debt, from which there is no exit.

It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.

Student loan debt is a real problem. People want to have serious conversations about that.

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

My own view is that the general education curriculum that a college picks has to be appropriate for the kind of student body that it has.

I was an engineering student and spent a lot of time in the library, and no one applauds when you finish your calculations.

As a student I travelled around the Mediterranean - the Greek islands and Salerno on the south coast of Italy.

To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.

I got married when I was a first-year medical student and my husband was pursuing Nephrology in the same college.

I never liked the status quo. Once I went to college, I got very involved in student activism.

I enjoy going to shows to study other artists. It is important to always remain a student to my craft.

My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.

I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.

The Umbrella Movement can be described as an encyclopedia. Politicians and student leaders wrote it, and let the masses read it and react passively.

If you haven't saved, your child may have to work. But do what you can to NEVER take out student or parent loans.

I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

I'm an A student. I'm addicted to feedback, and I want to please people. That's sort of how I've gotten to where I am.

'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.

It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.

I was a bad student. My teachers gave up trying to teach me how to read music.

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.

I was a student of law as my grandmother wanted me to be a lawyer. But my passion has always been movies.

Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles.

Mrs. Thatcher was a powerful figure at the time I was a student in London. And I admire her versatility and strength.

Navient/Sallie Mae treated student loan borrowers unfairly from start to finish.

I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.

Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.

It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked.

Directing pushes me out of my comfort zone, and I feel like a student again.

Let's say you're all worried about student-loan debt and you need to have steady income. That doesn't have to be your everything.

I went to uni and then drama school afterwards and lived in quite a few student houses.

I am the student who picks his nose, so come over here and take off your clothes.