Students Quotes

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

Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age
Robert Martin

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
William Lyon Phelps

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves--and be free.
Cesar Chavez

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.

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

Nowadays, all students have access to and indeed most own computers and are comfortable with the software used to compose music. There are probably too many musical options for them now and the trick is to limit the number of musical ideas so as to develop structure and continuity in their work.
Jon Howard Appleton

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

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.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts…it is to teach them to think.
Robert M. Hutchins

Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve
Roger Lewin

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure
Sidney Hook

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

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.

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

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.

Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you don't consider your students to be human beings
Lou Ann Walker

Wise teachers create an environment that encourages students to teach themselves
Leonard Roy Frank

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

We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: "Black man you are on your own!"







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