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Twelve million students take the PARCC or Smarter Balanced. Now, if 5 percent opt out, that creates - that triggers some restrictions, and 5 percent of 12 million is only 600,000.

We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

We aren't quite sure what we're trying to differentiate, and therefore can't quite see how to do it other than giving some students more to cover and some less. That rarely works.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

We call for a bailout for an entire generation that is basically held hostage by unpayable student-loan debt.

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.

We do our universities a disservice when we brand them as a lost cause. There are some frightfully honest students out there, and when their questions are respectfully dealt with, many admit their vulnerability.

We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.

We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.

We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them.

We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo.

We need to understand where are students are at any point during a unit - in other words, what each student actually knows, understands, and can do at a given time based on the content goals we've established.

We have to be sure [students] understand that racial, national, ethnic, and religious hatred can lead to horrible tragedies.

We need to make sure our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell them honestly when they have it in them to work harder.

We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own!

We're trying to increase the efficiency of students to learn from current instruction.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears.

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.

What about those [Donald] Trump supporters out there and we've seen several incidents of this, with racially-charged intimidation of students and things like that? Doesn't President-Elect Trump have some responsibility to say something about that?

What I experienced in Cuba, I have become a student of what, how communism operates.

What you really want to do, the objective is to get as many students coming out of there thinking differently than they went in.

What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." It's a joke.

When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up

When I made my student film, a feature, nobody wanted to talk to me and I was, like, in the desert for 12 years.

When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.

What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession.

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

When I taught, all my best students were women.

When I started teaching in the late 60s, in a time of student revolutions and changes, they changed in question of society and authority.

When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.

When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would soon stand equal with men in science. But progress has proved slower than many of us imagined.

When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.

When I was in high school, I liked to pretend that I was a Russian foreign exchange student. I would do things like go into a pizza restaurant and tell them Id never had pizza before, and theyd bring me into the kitchen and show me how to make an American pizza. Its really fun.

When I was a young student, I thought grow-ups would come and make things work. Now I realize that grown-ups are just kids with wrinkles.

When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also writing the playwright. You're developing yourself as a persona, as a public persona. It's going to be partly exposed through the writing itself and partly created by all the paraphernalia that attaches itself to writing. But you aren't simply an invisible being or your own private being at work. You're kind of a public figure, as well.

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

When teachers stop learning, so do students.

When Ronald Reagan became president, students could no longer get food stamps.

When I would present my work as a student, often I would hear, "Your project is too formal" - it's too form-based; it's too form-driven. Which is kind of shocking for a visual practice, for someone to say something discouraging about a focus on an exploration of aesthetics.

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

When the students in the South, the blacks, started demonstrating, that was the beginning of the time of students becoming a social force around the world.

When the student is ready, the messenger appears.

When you act like a teacher, it's usually because you're afraid to be the student.

When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and also the small particle of immortality that attaches to you when you begin to belong to an immortal place.

When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.

Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.