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...

The work of meaningful student involvement is not easy or instantly rewarding. It demands that the system of schooling change, and that the attitudes of students, educators, parents and community members change.

We want to be able to get students acclimated and accustomed to alumni activities early. As a result, in the fall, you will see more alumni activities involving students.

Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books and look for something else. Doing so, they miss an important and instructive...

I debated in high school! If you told things that weren’t true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It’s too bad they don’t apply the same standards to presidential candidates...

He was a very tough teacher, but a very fair teacher. Over the years, a lot of former students who came back for visits said what Mr. Bassett taught them carried them all the way...

Students are residents, too. They need to have a voice. They need to get out and vote to prove they are part of the community, whether it is for or against.

The only thing worse than losing hope is to be the reason someone else loses hope.

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

We don’t want to be adversarial but we see these programs that are adversarial to the students.

It’s a mess-up and I understand. But it’s hard to get students to vote once and now it’ll be even harder.

I miss being a student,” said Abdul Wahid. “I miss the passionate discussions with my friends, and most of all the hours among the books.

We continue to provide a wide variety of subject related activities to all of our students to better prepare them for this testing.

And who thought it was a good idea to rent bicycles to Italian adolescent language students? If hell did exist, which Jackson was sure it did, it would be governed by a committee of fifteen-year-old...

We turn away [nursing] students every year because we don’t have enough faculty.

To teach, learn. To learn, teach.

I thought, Dad.Could I go to Vietnam for you?Dad, I could do it. I could do it for you. I could go to the places you fought. I could find the bits and pieces of...

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....

It makes a world of difference. Students can finally compete at the same level.

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

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...

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...

The goal of the conference and the workshops is to stimulate dialogue between students on these issues so that they can return to their respective campuses and continue the dialogue.

All my French students are fantastic. We’re a tight group.

I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.

I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words ‘diversity’ and ‘tolerance’ won’t be in their vocabulary. They won’t need them – they’ll live it.

One of the things we’ll be looking at is how many students need to be accommodated before the new high school is ready for students to occupy it.

It is analogous to students within the lab, where each group of students is given a task that must be carried out. There cannot be any conflicts in their collective thinking.

It’s really seeing student involvement … as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and their desires for their educational experience.

My first reaction is that the students weren’t a part of this process. It is very alarming that we were not involved. But we look forward to working with a permanent president and seeing how...

There are a bunch of students over $1,000 in fines. It gets to a point where there is a hold placed on them, and they can’t register for classes, receive their transcript or diploma without...

I’ve been personally involved and committed to helping because of its impact on students.

I’m very staid compared to my students, actually.

It is very important for me to deliver my message to students and faculty at this great institution of American society because it is the ideas and thoughts of these young people that are going...

I’m not sure I ever met an American teacher in Korea that hadn’t volunteered at an orphanage at least once—even our resident idiot could be surprisingly decent on occasion—but I’ve also visited foreign countries where...

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

At the Getty Villa, students will benefit from close contact with scholars, curators, conservators and other specialized professionals. They will also have access to one of the finest collections of antiquities and to research resources...

I’m 53. I don’t care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

The importance of ‘Dream School’ is monumental. Helping to inspire these students to reach their potential is personally gratifying.

The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now.

We had been told by other participating districts to expect an initial enrollment of 500 students.

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.

You don’t really need to be intelligent to be a ‘top student.’ All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam.

The only thing I knew for sure is I hadn’t slept in ten years. Not really. I’d been fighting my own monster since nine months after 9/11. I had regrets. I had pain that I...

We estimate that most professional dancers and students on a professional track probably do over 2 million little jumps a year. That’s a lot of wear and tear.

[McCormick is] going to need some suggestions on what [students] want and what they don’t want.

She works very hard and is always trying to improve in everything she does. She’s one of those students who you don’t have to worry about. She’s an overall great student.

By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a...