Students
Quotes - Rejection is an opportunity for your selection
“I
tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly
trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need
to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower
somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
―
Toni Morrison
“Rejection
is an opportunity for your selection.”
―
Bernard Branson
“But
we're a university! We have to have a library!" said Ridcully. "It
adds tone. What sort of people would we be if we didn't go into the
library?"
"Students,"
said Senior Wrangler morosely.”
―
Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
“The
best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to
see.”
―
Alexandra K.Trenfor
“Every
student, Shadowhunter and mundane alike, knew the name Herondale. It was Jace’s
last name. It was the name of heroes.”
―
Cassandra Clare, The Lost Herondale
“Once
in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in
service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.”
―
Neal Shusterman, Bruiser
“A
teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself
thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his
knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.”
―
Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living
“Fifty?”
Harry gasped.
“Fifty
points each,” said Professor McGonagall, breathing heavily.
“Professor
— please —”
“You
can’t —”
“Don’t
tell me what I can and can’t do, Potter. I’ve never been more ashamed of
Gryffindor students.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“Never
try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be
tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own —”
“That’s
enough, Phineas,” said Dumbledore.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“A
Student is the most important person ever in this school...in person, on the
telephone, or by mail.
A
Student is not dependent on us...we are dependent on the Student.
A
Student is not an interruption of our work..the Studenti s the purpose of it.
We are not doing a favor by serving the Student...the Student is doing us a
favor by giving us the opportunity to do so.
A
Student is a person who brings us his or her desire to learn. It is our job to
handle each Student in a manner which is beneficial to the Student and
ourselves.”
―
William W. Purkey, Becoming an Invitational Leader: A New Approach to
Professional and Personal Success
“The
worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst
thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.”
―
Henry Jenkins
“Students,
eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!”
―
Terry Pratchett, Making Money
“Teachers
dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the
initial stages of their adolescence. A certain streak of genius makes an
ominous impression on them, for there exists a deep gulf between genius and the
teaching profession. Anyone with a touch of genius seems to his teachers a
freak from the very first. As far as teachers are concerned, they define young
geniuses as those who are bad, disrespectful, smoke at fourteen, fall in love
at fifteen, can be found at sixteen hanging out in bars, read forbidden books,
write scandalous essays, occasionally stare down a teacher in class, are marked
in the attendance book as rebels, and are budding candidates for room-arrest. A
schoolmaster will prefer to have a couple of dumbheads in his class than a
single genius, and if you regard it objectively, he is of course right. His
task is not to produce extravagant intellects but good Latinists,
arithmeticians and sober decent folk. The question of who suffers more acutely
at the other's hands - the teacher at the boy's, or vice versa - who is more of
a tyrant, more of a tormentor, and who profanes parts of the other's soul,
student or teacher, is something you cannot examine without remembering your
own youth in anger and shame. yet that's not what concerns us here. We have the
consolation that among true geniuses the wounds almost always heal. As their
personalities develop, they create their art in spite of school. Once dead, and
enveloped by the comfortable nimbus of remoteness, they are paraded by the
schoolmasters before other generations of students as showpieces and noble
examples. Thus the struggle between rule and spirit repeats itself year after
year from school to school. The authorities go to infinite pains to nip the few
profound or more valuable intellects in the bud. And time and again the ones
who are detested by their teachers are frequently punished, the runaways and
those expelled, are the ones who afterwards add to society's treasure. But some
- and who knows how many? - waste away quiet obstinacy and finally go under.”
―
Hermann Hesse, Beneath the Wheel
“It
is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you
will understand why everything in the past never worked.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“An
exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why
would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?”
―
Criss Jami, Killosophy
“The
chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it,
teachers and taught.”
―
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
