Large schools tend to be anonymous places, places where teachers and students are little known to each other. The anonymity often breeds apathy or alienation; many kids fall through the cracks.
Thomas Toch
It's exciting and encouraging that the spirit of exploration is alive and that students see it occurring in their lifetime. These may well be the children that make it a reality.
Orlando Figueroa
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
John Ciardi
Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.
Donald Norman
Distance education is a huge lecture hall with hundreds of students and minimal interaction. It is time for us to start measuring the quality of learning by more than labels like face-to-face, hybrid, or e-learning.
Darcy Hardy
Programs such as the Washington Search for Young Scholars help identify talented children so schools and communities can respond with challenges they need to help them fulfill their promise and to keep these students fully engaged in their education.
Robert Vaughn
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Frank Lloyd Wright
One mark of a great educator is the ability to lead students out to new places where even the educator has never been
Thomas Groome
Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way.
Mevlana Rumi
Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.
Robertson Davies
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
Woodrow T. Wilson
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it
Allan Bloom
Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
Jesse Jackson
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
William Glasser