Student Quotes
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The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present. He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many lands. And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.
Flannery O'Connor -
I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.
Damien Hirst
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If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further.
Confucius -
When the bus arrived at the school, children were telling administrators that a student on the bus was showing a weapon.
John Whiting -
I did a lot of student acting when I was young.
Salman Rushdie -
Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems back to all of them, he will assign the "why" in the way proper to his science-the matter, the form, the mover, that for the sake of which.
Aristotle -
I was a good student. I was lame. I was into school and didn't really go out much, so I guess I wasn't the coolest person on the planet.
Rita Volk -
As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.
Buzz Aldrin
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I've never professed to be anything but an average student.
Dan Quayle -
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.
Esther Dyson -
Teachers of design should help a student to find their own voice. In other words, not be a templated version of the teacher, but rather to help them the students unfold what they already know and can bring to the table.
April Greiman -
The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.
George Bernard Shaw -
All this, the positive and physical essence of mechanics, which makes its chief and highest interest for a student of nature, is in existing treatises completely buried and concealed beneath a mass of technical considerations.
Ernst Mach -
You hope that the same people are coming back. I love playing with Angela [Bassett]. She's fierce. I met her years and years ago when she was a student at Yale, so to see her do these fierce roles and go on to [be] this powerhouse has just been awesome.
Kathy Bates
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A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.
Martin Luther -
I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.
Colin Farrell -
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
Lao Tzu -
When the student is ready, the messenger appears.
Norman Vincent Peale -
Class I to XII wasn't much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics with theatre or psychology with science fiction, I got a whole new world view.
Vir Das -
To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image and emotions were not shared by the apostolic church.
R. C. Sproul
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As a theoretical physicist, I consider myself a student of Lev Davidovich Landau.
Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich -
I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.
Alan Rickman -
I was a terrible English student.
Leon Uris -
Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student.
Blake Mycoskie