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The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow.

The teacher "teaches" and the students "sit and listen" or learn passively.

The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.

The teachers who get "burned out" are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.

The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard.

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it

The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.

Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses because of their education.

Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do those things by doing it for me. Things that I can't do myself, my graduate students should be doing.

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

This is what Baylor is all about, .. This is 2012 and it implements faculty expertise and it allows students to experience international culture, not only that, but a culture within a culture.

Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.

Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.

To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to surrendor the movements of one's soul to the unknown complexities of another's. A willingness, not simply to be moved, but to be remade.

Today's students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.

The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings

...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

Too much horsing around with unrealistic stances and classic forms and rituals is just too artificial and mechanical, and doesn't really prepare the student for actual combat. A guy could get clobbered while getting into this classical mess. Classical methods like these, which I consider a form of paralysis, only solidify and constrain what was once fluid. Their practitioners are merely blindly rehearsing routines and stunts that will lead nowhere.

Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.

Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.

True renunciation can be attained by anyone - whether a millionaire, parent, student, politician, farmer or engineer. It's not what you have or don't have; it's your state of consciousness. In essence, it means that true peace that comes from true renunciation arrives when we understand that nothing is mine. Whatever intelligence I have, whatever abilities I have, whatever family members I have, whatever wealth or property I have, is the sacred property of God or the Divine.

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.

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.

To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student's doubts, fears, and incompetencies that are part of the learning process. It is in listening to the student that I learn to speak with him or her.

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

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.

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

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