Students Quotes - Page 2

• One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Important, Characteristics

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• Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Light

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  The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

  Aristotle

  Graduation, Education, Sweet

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.

  Haim Ginott

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• If you can dream it, you can make it so.

  Belva Davis

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

  Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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  It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Dance, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.52, St. Martin's Press

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• If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

  Nora Roberts

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• 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

  Attitude, Believe, Dope

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  Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

  Abigail Adams

  Inspirational, Education, Perseverance

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• 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

  Learning, Cynical, Political

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

  Cesar Chavez

  Diversity, Community, Parent

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• Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

  Milton Friedman

  Athlete, Ideas, Understanding

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

  William Lyon Phelps

  Hope, Respect, Admiration

  William Lyon Phelps (1912). “Teaching in School and College”

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• The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.

  Jodi Rell

  Math, College, Years

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• I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Night, Class

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.414, Ballantine Books

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• Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Perfectly Good, Cynical

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• The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

  Marva Collins

  Teacher, Teaching, Poor

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• When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

  Marva Collins

  Teacher, Teaching, Failing

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• My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Bed, Genius, Literature

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• The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Mind, Principles

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson (1840). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: With Notes Critical, Historical and Explanatory, Selected from the Most Eminent Commentators”, p.18

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• The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.

  James A. Baldwin

  Views, Generations, Point Of View

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