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Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age

Robert Martin

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

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

William Lyon Phelps

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student

Marva Collins

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

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

William Glasser

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

Og Mandino

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.

Marva Collins

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 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

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

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

Amos Bronson Alcott

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

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

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

Cesar Chavez

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.

William Glasser

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.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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