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Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school.

Over a period of years he collected thousands of discples. Many became his students. Many didn't become his students but whenever he was in town they would go and see him.

Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable.

Prefects. I had learned this one. Student council types, but with superpowers. They who must be obeyed.

Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

People are under the illusion that it's easy...Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell my students to simplify their equipment.

Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.

Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools.

Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.

Prohibiting guns on campus made the Virginia Tech students less safe, not more.

Professors and students claim to be on a quest for truth while denying that it exists or that anyone could identify it if it did. Such is the nihilistic atmosphere in major universities around the world.

Readiness is a student’s entry point relative to a particular understanding or skill.

Questions to ask yourself: Are you a good teacher? Who would know? You would. Your students. Your friends. Your God. Not a bad audience, that!

Race is not the only differential in South Africa, in the new South Africa, where all schools are open, mother-tongue education is a very big issue. One of the main reasons why the dropout figure of black students, and the lower pass rate of black students in the present education system, and it was like that before, was that we didn't have mother-tongue education.

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

Remember that in most cases, student loan debt is not dischargeable in bankruptcy. So you continue to pay it off anyway. Those who have very low interest rates (2-2.5 percent) on student loans and know everything is secure, great.

Research, as the college student will come to know it, is relatively thorough investigation, primarily in libraries, of a properly limited topic, and presentation of the results of this investigation in a carefully organized and documented paper of some length.

Researchers studied 34 students at the University of Virginia, taking them to the base of a steep hill and fitting them with a weighted backpack. They were then asked to estimate the steepness of the hill. Some participants stood next to friends during the exercise, while others were alone. The students who stood with friends gave lower estimates of the steepness of the hill. And the longer the friends had known each other, the less steep the hill appeared.

Skills training and industry-preparedness are the distinct advantages these students have. At the completion of their degree they have been trained to be biotechnology professionals.

She talked to me like I was just like any other student, not a kid in a wheelchair.

Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

Some of my students have had really bad experiences with religion. They moved away from talking to God. For a lot of people, angels are a gentle route back to the Creator.

Something I tell my students is to read once; then if you still have problems with it, read it a second time. If you still have problems, get drunk and read it a third time... and you might get something out of it.

Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.

Sometimes you get lit students that know a lot about the canon but virtually nothing about contemporary poetry and vice versa. I like to mix things up.

Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.

States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.

Stop teaching students that they are the best and the brightest.

Students at residential universities often live together and spend time on activities that aren't connected with the university. Then, should the university's rules about sexual consent extend to students' private lives? In my book, I argue that these narrow rules should extend to students' private lives no matter what or where they happen to be conducting those lives. The logic is that sexual assault is a form of discrimination and denies the victim an equal education. The point of university life is to get that diploma and nothing should stand in the way.

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

Students can do experiments and investigate for themselves what's going on in restaurants, in our food system, and begin a process of learning.

[Students for a Democratic Society] it's a social democratic program.

Students for a Democratic Society was founded in 1961.

Students, in particular, now find themselves in a world in which heightened expectations have been replaced by dashed hopes.

Students should not feel as if they had missed the boat if they failed examinations and should be presented with more opportunities to further their studies.

Students who are put in a university who aren't qualified tend to have lower graduation rates, they have lower grades, they have lower bar passage rates. You can demonstrate that. You are putting them in position where they are not set up to succeed.

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

Study and know that we are always a student of the craft well after we've completed any course of study... and approach the work as a servant, not a star.

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

Students were taught by doing.

Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.

Students and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East.

[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I had something to do and something to say.

Students typically are at a period of their lives when they're more free than at any other time. They're out of parental control. They're not yet burdened by the needs of trying to put food on the table in a pretty repressive environment, often, and they're free to explore, to create, to invent, to act, and to organize. Over and over through the years, student activism has been extremely significant in initiating and galvanizing major changes. I don't see any reason for that to change.

Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.

Teachers learn from their students' discussions