Quotes about Students

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

When we look at teaching in terms of hospitality, we can say that the teacher is called upon to create for his students a free and fearless space where mental and emotional development can take place.

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

When we're able to identify disparities in education, we can better determine whether federal grant programs are effectively reaching our students, allowing us to improve how to distribute and implement these funds across communities.

Wisdom is a teacher, God is its professor.The wise are His students, life is His rod, and eternal life is our reward.

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.

June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.

Such was the case with most unhappy students; they avoided even one another, so intent on their own unhappiness they failed to notice the other lost souls around them.

Common Core is a big win for education.

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.