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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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 teachers stop learning, so do students.

When the student is ready, the messenger appears.

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

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

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

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

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.

Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.

Why don't you lay the footpaths where the students want to walk?

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.

Wise teachers create an environment that encourages students to teach themselves

Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity.

Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.

Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?

Will raised both eyebrows. 'Well, you learn a new thing everyday,' he said reflectively. 'In your case, that's no exaggeration,' Halt said, completely straight-faced.

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.

You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.

Working together we can strengthen Delaware State University and the students who attend it.

You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.

You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are not inclined to do so they never will.

You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes.

You can't lift people out of poverty simply by tweaking the tax system, or by raising the minimum wage by a few cents, or by reducing student debt slightly. These might be necessary components of a larger anti-poverty program, but you have to accept they are pieces of a much larger puzzle.

You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can.

You know, you can always pick the lit students," he continued, grinning. "Is that so? How?" "They're the ones who walk around wearing berets and that I-know-something-you-don't expression.