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Current education in science treats all students as if they were going to have scientific careers. They are required to solve problems and memorize lists. For many of them, this kills interest very quickly.

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.

Deepika asked questions like a diligent student. She talks little and saves all she has for the shot.

Derek Bok's most recent book, Our Underachieving Colleges, is worth scrutinizing. . . . Bok is . . . on solid ground in pointing out that our colleges underachieve in preparing students for citizenship.

Do everything you can to learn your craft. Score student films for free, attend conferences, learn music theory - do anything and everything you can.

Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes.

Economics is primarily useful, both to the student and to the political leader, as a prophylactic against popular fallacies.

Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.

[Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and if anyone thinks you are a Negro he is mistaken, because you merely look like one.

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to adapt to the world of oppression.

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.

...education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time......that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power.

Education should ennoble the students, but instead it is debasing them. Instead of shaping the young into diamonds, it is turning them into coals. It is not bringing transformation in them, It is not bestowing wisdom.

Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own. . .

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

Effective managing therefore happens where art , craft, and science meet. But in a classroom of students without managerial experience, these have no place to meet there is nothing to do.

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

Even as I've become more reticent about the political possibilities of the academic space, I want to note that students have played significant roles in insurrectionary activity across the globe for decades and centuries, and I don't think that we've crossed some threshold where that's never going to happen again. We still need to take the university space quite seriously.

Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know.

Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.

Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.

Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius.

Every student has the ability to be a successful learner.

Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.

Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much to learn, but much also to unlearn.

Every student of physics knows the axiom 'nature abhors a vacuum.' A little known corollary is that 'rowing coaches detest sending their crews in early.' Coaches will always find something to fill the end-of-practice vacuum.

Every student, without exception, should be able to succeed well at something consequential.

For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.

Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

For someone who’s made it clear that her life is superior to every other student’s at this school, you sure make it a habit of pursuing every facet of our boring, worthless lives.

For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

For years, Mount Holyoke professor Joseph 'Full Metal Jacket' Ellis had been regaling students, interviewers and friends with gripping stories of his service in Vietnam.

For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test.

For Zen students, a weed is a treasure.

Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and the student grow.

General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

Good students are good at all things.

Harvard has something that manages, I think, to provide a lot of options for students, but still fairly prescriptive about the kinds of subjects that the courses ought to cover.

GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.