Students Quotes
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During its first year of operation, Florida Virtual School had 77 students. The next year, it had 476 students; then 2,489 students the year after that.
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One school invited me down, as two pupils had come out, and the headmaster didn't know what to do about it. I said, 'How many students here are gay?' and he said, 'Just these two.' Clearly not. 'How many gay members of staff have you got?' He had no idea. And this was a concerned man.
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I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
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We need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were required to drop their questions, that would create armies of zombies- rows of jellyfish...The questioning mind is absolutely necessary.
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Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.
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Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.
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When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
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In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of 'race, class and gender.'
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The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.
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Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'
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It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week, and better understood and retained, by sixth-grade students. Child-centeredness does not mean lack of rigor or standards; it does mean finding the best match between curricula and children's developing interests and abilities.
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It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked.
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There are millions of eligible students who are not getting services. We have got to correct that. At its face value, it's wrong.
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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
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For students in Iowa, I think it sends the wrong message. I think it undermines our credibility when in one area we have the authority to set standards, we have such a minimum that is, in my opinion, embarrassing.
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Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree.
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Manga uses Japanese traditional structures in how to teach the student and to transmit a very direct message. You learn from the teacher by watching from behind his back. The whole teacher-master thing is part of Asian culture, I think.
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I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
