An individual school can handle a resident idiot from time to time, but an entire school system is only as good as its weakest leader.

Students want female teachers to be warm and nurturing. When they aren’t, they get marked down across the board for being ‘bitches.” What’s a bitch? A woman who acts like a confident guy. Women are...

When asked what kind of grad student Lynn Marulis takes: ‘I never take a straight A student. A real scientist tends to be critical, and somewhere along the line, they had to rebel against their...

Everyday more educators are showing that they value students by involving them in meaningful ways in school. These teachers and administrators say that it is not about ‘making students happy’ or allowing students to run...

Our goal is that all of our students will complete an internship. We know and understand that it may not happen fully in the first year, but our goal is that within a period of...

We’re doing prison ministry by doing this, and our students are doing ministry by being there. And the prisoners are doing ministry to Vanderbilt folks. They’re teaching us what it’s like on the other side.

It’s unfortunate we have to lose some of these opportunities for students, but the very difficult financial situation we are in requires difficult measures.

If you have somebody who doesn’t want to be there, it’s not good for the students.

Get out on campus and meet students.

For the first time in a decade I felt a voice rising from deep inside my soul. It cried out ‘what will you be today?’ and I heard ‘relentless’ booming from the rafters inside an...

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.

As students grow more and more accustomed to assuming materialism and naturalism in their academic work, the concept of creation by God gradually tends to become less real to them. It is not so much...

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon – because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

Students will have their own lockers until we get to 1,201,

I was very surprised last fall at how many students used it.

The essence of physical education in Naperville 203 is teaching fitness instead of sports. The underlying philosophy is that if physical education class can be used to instruct kids how to monitor and maintain their...

I tried to celebrate with the students because I’m a student, too.

Our better students tend to op for the (Bachelor of Arts) program.

It was radicals like you and your father that hijacked your faith, hijacked a few planes, and made thousands of children orphans in a single day. You pretend my country beats you because you are...

They (young Danbury students) think my primary goal is to come and check for smiles.

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...

It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.

The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.

The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves.

Everything here is natural. We don’t have any plastic toys or fake dolls. Our students knit their own dolls, and we’re growing grass in our Easter baskets, instead of buying the plastic grass.

Graduate students are less involved, concerned with who the speaker is [than undergraduates].

I added some extra roles to involve more students.

As you work to become a better student, remember that learning is far more important than the numbers on your transcript. I know it can be hard sometimes to remember what you’re in school for....

As calls rang out the world over for new treaties and organizations to be established with the intent of preventing future wars, America and her allies took a more realistic approach to the problem—we maintained...

Never judge a student’s skill on the bases of his academic success; you may never know that he could be tomorrow’s Einstein.

Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy.

That’s enough, Phineas,” said Dumbledore.

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...

[One option currently under consideration by SGA is to charge students who wish to use the Stingerette for off-campus travel an additional fee.] We would like to look at the possibility of having students who...

I went to Marion College for writing and I was kicked out of the writing school. I was asked to leave the writing program because I was corrupting the other students.

It looked out of date, like it was from the ’50s. (Without students on the committee) they might have gone with the script. It seems like everybody likes the block letters now.

Cope? Adapt? Uh, no. These are military kids. They roll with it. I once asked a new student, ‘See any familiar faces?’ She pointed out various kids and replied, ‘Seattle, Tampa, Okinawa, New Jersey.’ For...

It is said, in a fire, everyone runs away from it save for the fireman who run towards it. When dealing with students, be the fireman.

I firmly believe that we can protect taxpayer dollars, bus drivers’ jobs, and the safety of our students. We just need a mayor who actually cares about all three.

Don’t you know that’s what college is about…students spending years gathering useless information they’ll never use again, going hopelessly into debt, just so they feel smarter than the rest of their family? I mean, that’s...

You empower ignorance if you as teacher hide yourself among the students because you know less and give less… Don’t hide your identity, make it a reality!

Students currently remaining in the system who have multiple offences will be considered to have had their second offence.

Once, it was possible to learn things, and to be shaped by your learning, he says. Once, to be a student meant to be formed by what you learned. To let it enter your soul....

When I was ill, you came to me, Doctor, and with great urgency A hundred students brought With you A most instructive case to view The hundred fingered me with hands Chill’d by the blasts...

The thing that we’re most pleased about is that this recommendation came from the students.

All over the world there are students, teachers and parents that face serious challenges every day. They need help with real problems that have life-altering consequences—and a group of intelligent professionals brought together to advise...

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.

This is the best program in the nation for the ends it serves to accomplish. It helps the students that need it most.

The interesting aspect of this publication is that it was produced and written by undergraduate students.

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...