Student Quotes
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In the current environment, attributing low student performance to teacher tenure is one of the great unproven causal links out there. The relationship just hasn't been examined very carefully, but we should all recognize that in higher education the strongest institutions generally have the most robust tenure systems, and in elementary and secondary, the states with the strongest teacher unions (and tenure systems) tend to have the highest student performance.
Nicholas Lemann
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I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.
Eleanor Coppola
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I was an officer in my student council.
Niki Tsongas
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Even a first-year law student knows that you can't curtail the right of one person to speak because other people get disorderly.
Barry W. Lynn
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I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me - I don't know why!
Nicholas Braun
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Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius.
Anton Ehrenzweig
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No student should be encouraged - by anyone - to change himself until he's "normal," a term that says everything and means nothing.
Alexandra Robbins
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There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens
David J. Skorton
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I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.
Steven Spielberg
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I've always been an A or B student. When I get a B, I freak out a little bit!
Mirai Nagasu
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As a former student put it: “In a liberry it’s hard to avoid reading."
Bel Kaufman
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I hated high school. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out in my parking lot.
Sarah Dessen
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The best answer to the question, 'What is the most effective method of teaching?' is that it depends on the goal, the student, the content, and the teacher. But the next best answer is, 'Students teaching other students.'
Wilbert J. McKeachie
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There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters advanced math concepts - algebra, geometry, statistics and probability.
Anya Kamenetz
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I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn’t want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when you’re a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.
Francis Ford Coppola
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I was actually a pretty good student. My problem was that I didn't know what I wanted to study.
Mila Kunis
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When I was a student there in the mid-1990s, they had just created the weekend; depth and individuality were slowly returning after the austere, colorless low of the 1970s. When I returned to live in China from 2005 to 2013, the country was building everything anew.
Evan Osnos
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The greatest reward for a student is not a good grade. It is the willingness of his teacher to listen to him.
Nikolay Konstantinov
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Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.
Alfie Kohn
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Well, our victim had a thirst for knowledge. He was a student at St. Martins College.
Ben Aaronovitch