Students
Quotes - Teachers knew every one of the students
“Do
question, even the basics!
You
will be a fool for once!
If
you don't, you will be, for a lifetime..”
―
Himmilicious
“Teachers
knew every one of the students, their secrets, their grades, their home
situations. And all the students knew the teachers. It was like teachers were
people who finally were the most popular at school.”
―
Victoria Kahler, Their Friend Scarlet
“The
purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should
be seeking to have fully engaged students now.”
―
Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
“Students
who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think
about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt . they can’t
afford the time to think. Tuition fee increases are a “disciplinary technique,”
and, by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but
have also internalized the “disciplinarian culture.” This makes them efficient
components of the consumer economy.”
―
Noam Chomsky
“In
my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope,
rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three
weren't available.”
―
Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent & Neither Here Nor There
“I
must endure, fighting the temptation simply to become slack-jawed like most of
my school 'peers' (they wish!), who will themselves into a collective, vacant,
trancelike state for the duration of each class. (Although I sometimes secretly
envy their ability to empty their minds completely for a full fifty minutes,
reanimating only at the sound of a bell, like Pavlov's dogs...)”
―
Beth Fantaskey, Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side
“Mr.
Klamp laid down the law. No tardiness, no talking above 40 decibels, no untied
shoelaces, no visible undergarments, no eating, no chewing gum, no chewing
tobacco, no chewing betel nuts, no chewing coca leaves, no chewing out students
(unless Mr. Klamp was doing the chewing out), no chewing out teachers (unless
ditto), no unnecessary displays of temper (unless ditto), no unnecessary
displays of affection (no exceptions), no pets over one ounce or under one ton,
and no singing, except in Bulgarian. I began to think Mr Klamp wouldn't be so
bad...”
―
Polly Shulman, Enthusiasm
“Sanabalis
never seemed to eat, and he deflected most of her questions about Dragon
cuisine. Then again, he deflected most of her questions about Dragons, period.
Which was annoying because he was one, and could in theory be authorative.”
―
Michelle Sagara West, Cast in Silence
“One
of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the
economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You
never hear faculty talk that way. He did.”
―
Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs
“Instead
of making prisoners out of our students, we ought to make students out of our
prisoners.”
―
Paul W. Silver, The Dangerous Dream
“Today
is not just another ordinary day. It is an opportunity to do, or say, something
that just might inspire someone to greater becoming...especially a wayward
youth.”
―
T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious
Encounters With the Divine Presence
“When
I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.”
―
Frank McCourt, Teacher Man
“People
who are ready to learn are those who will be the best to lead.”
―
Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
“If
you can't explain why someone should pay attention to what you're saying, maybe
you shouldn't be saying it.”
―
Dave Burgess, Teach Like a PIRATE: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your
Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator
“When
teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.”
―
Ace Antonio Hall
“Wolf's
wool is the best wool, but it cannot be sheared, because the wolf will not
comply. With knowledge as with wolves' surliness, the student studies
voluntarily, refusing to be less than individual. He "gives his opinion
and then rests upon it"; he renders service when there is no reward, and
is too reclusive for some things to seem to touch him; not because he has no
feeling but because he has so much.”
―
Marianne Moore, Complete Poems
“I
have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more
than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume
they have good minds.”
―
Mark Van Doren
“Ah
college years, those were the days. Pure freedom ... leaving home for the first
time…the parties…”
"What
about the tutorials, the lectures, the large building with all the books called
the ‘library’?”
“Is
that what those were?” Gerry blithely replied.”
―
E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“We,
Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It
was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too
easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not
good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them.
The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.”
―
Ayn Rand, Anthem
“I
went to interview some of these early Jewish colonial zealots—written off in
those days as mere 'fringe' elements—and found that they called themselves Gush
Emunim or—it sounded just as bad in English—'The Bloc of the Faithful.' Why not
just say 'Party of God' and have done with it? At least they didn't have the
nerve to say that they stole other people's land because their own home in
Poland or Belarus had been taken from them. They said they took the land
because god had given it to them from time immemorial. In the noisome town of
Hebron, where all of life is focused on a supposedly sacred boneyard in a dank
local cave, one of the world's less pretty sights is that of supposed yeshivah
students toting submachine guns and humbling the Arab inhabitants. When I asked
one of these charmers where he got his legal authority to be a squatter, he
flung his hand, index finger outstretched, toward the sky.”
―
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
