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If the students don't want to learn about evolution, they shouldn't be in the course. A biology course that teaches creationism is not a science course, it's a religion course. So the students demanding that creationism be given credence in that course are out of line and are denying the academic freedom of the professor. They are calling into question the scientific basis of the material that's being presented. And students are not in a position to do that.

If the student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach.

If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.

If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

If you're one of the millions of people who have student debt right now, I'll help you refinance your loans at better rates.

I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.

If you sit in on a film class with students, their big complaint is "That's not like real life." They don't realize that they don't really want to watch real life. They don't want to sit and watch a security camera. There's a strong gravity in all of us as viewers - even in myself now and then - to want to see real life depicted. But you're looking for it in the wrong places. It's in little allegories, in something removed.

If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.

I got married to Chris Sarandon, who was a graduate student, and he knew everything at that point, I thought, because he was older. He introduced me to poetry and black-and-white movies.

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies, I was constantly being physically abused because the whipping of students was permitted.

I had a passion for cooking, and I was a very bad student.

I had in effect been thrown out of graduate school because I was a lousy graduate student, and I had to find a job, and I took the first job that came along. It happened to be a management trainee job in a life insurance company, and I just stayed. It was always, mainly, the idea was that I would support myself as a writer, and I knew I would have to have some sort of work, and it didn't make a whole lot of difference to me what it was. I mean, I could have been a paper hanger or something for that matter.

I had an affinity for music and could play anything I heard on the piano, but I wasn't scholastically advanced in any way. It was more of a habitual tendency. I would work on weekends at piano bars playing jazz when I was an art student, but the music wasn't mine - it was covers: everything from Radiohead to really old jazz. But other than that, the only training I had was piano lessons from when I was nine until I was eleven.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.

I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

I hated school, but I was a good student. I made straight A's.

I hardly ever missed school, and I always got my work in on time. I was a good student and always got top grades.

I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

I have a very strong passion to sing and paint. I'm really a student.

I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.

I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.

I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.

I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.

I have students whose fathers are voting for Sarah Palin. It's wild.

I look at my young students, and I no longer have the sense that, oh, I'm the authority and they have to meet a certain standard. It's like, oh, look at these young ones. They've got such a hard road in front of them. I don't envy them having life ahead of them.

I like to tell the students the radio business's like surfing. You get knocked off your board by a wave, you get back up, stabilize, regain your balance and keep going. One thing I can guarantee them is that everything will change. You have to be ready for it. But that's life. Life constantly changes.

I love basketball, but playing basketball doesn't fully define who I am. I was always a good student, too.

I'm a bit uncomfortable, truth be told, with being seen as an expert, because there is always so much more to learn. I see myself as a perpetual student of the goddess.

I loved to teach, I loved my students, but I wanted to find a community. I prayed: "Lord, show me where you want me to go. I will go wanted wherever you call me - but please be clear.

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

I'm afraid I wasn't much of a student, but my casual reading was enormous.

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.

I'm a student of history and know that civilizations get lost - they are born and die - and so I recognize the tender mortality of our civilization. I'm not saying I'm separate from the despair of that, but I'm not controlled by the despair of that.

I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn.

I'm an A student. I'm addicted to feedback, and I want to please people. That's sort of how I've gotten to where I am.

I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

I’m aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than I’d ever realized, and just like the students at Beijing University, I’ve glimpsed it only fleetingly, peripherally. I’ve sensed the vast expanse of my own ignorance now. I feel antsy and constricted and a deep, almost sexual yearning for velocity, for some sort of raw, transcendent experience that I cannot even begin to articulate.

I'm a humble student of acting myself and part of that studentship is teaching.

I'm a student of violence because I'm a student of the human heart.

I'm much more of a kid now than I was when I was a kid. I was the kind of kid who was valedictorian, a straight-A student. My mom used to say, "Please stop studying and get outside.

I met Hilary Vaughan at a Student Ball in 1944 and we married in the summer of 1946, as soon as I graduated.

I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos.

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

I'm not a master. I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning. So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word 'master.' I consider the master as such when they close the casket.