Student Discipline Quotes Quotes

Take the attitude of a student. Never be too big to ask questions. Never know too much to learn something new.

Og Mandino 1923

In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.

Christopher Alexander

The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.

Carl David Anderson

The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.

Jon Howard Appleton

Every moment you are open, as a humble student, you are surrounded with infinite possibilities of choice.

Bryant McGill

I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.

Lester Bangs

Indeed, both the scholar and the student share the prosperity.

al-Hadi, Ali

Both professor and student share in the pursuit of excellence and perfection.

al-Hadi, Ali

One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto [Jorge Luis] Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way.

John Simmons Barth

I have always been I think any student of history almost inevitably is a cheerful pessimist.

Jacques Barzun

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

Jacques Barzun

A few years ago, you seemed worried that perhaps a lack of emotion was a weakness in your stories. A constant worry. Im still worried. I tell my students that one of the things readers want, and deserve, is a certain amount of blood on the floor. I dont always produce it. Probably a function of being more interested in other parts of the process.

Donald Barthelme

American universities are united in the view that foreign students enhance the research and education that we provide. Our country can only benefit by welcoming international talent.

Robert Joseph Birgeneau

But one is forced to translate thought into action and action into object.. ..I am not a teacher who tells his students only to think. I say: act; do something: I ask for result. It may take different forms. It can have the form of sound, or someone can do a book, make a drawing or a sculpture. I dont care..

Joseph Beuys

The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that I exist? The keen old prof replied, And who is asking?

Saul Bellow