Student Quotes
188 quotes
"There’s truth in only having a bicycle seat. I used to skip class and just hold it out in the hallway. When teachers would ask me what I was doing, I’d hold it up and say, “Sorry I’m late."
"Teach me to dance and I'll show you how to make love to music. The first 30 minutes are free, but after that I'm gonna have to charge you."
"I made a cauldron of coffee, and I was thinking we could chug it and then teach each other how to dance by using the bottom of a floating canoe as a ballroom."
"The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte."
"The quality of the relationships that students have in class with their peers and teachers is important to their success in school."
"Pursue your dreams. You will be amazed about what you can achieve."
"Don’t you think most of those kids think too much about who got an A or a B when they were in law school and what that means to an inflated G.P.A. and not enough about the world?” asked Connor irrelevantly."
"Should I have a doughnut or my disgusting cardboard?” asked Gwynn, as she drew up languidly before me at a study table in a bookstore on State Street, raising a puffed rice cake in the air. My eyes narrowed attentively at her face, but as I hesitated, she announced eagerly, “Disgusting cardboard it is!"
"Really, nobody was there?” I asked.“Well, nobody important,” he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking."
"Look, girls know when they’re cute,” he said. “You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to take the bar. She doesn’t have a job. I was like, ‘How are you going to get a job there in this market?’ And she’s like, ‘I’ll wink and I’ll smile.’ She’s a pretty girl. Whether that works despite her poor grades is yet to be seen."
"You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers."
"What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read."
"Grades are still important, but they are not the most important things. As clichéd as it is, the things you learn outside class is more important than the textbooks you blindly memorize in time for exams."
"I don’t think I’ve ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even the girl that I dated for two years in college I don’t think I ever referred to her as my girlfriend.”“How would you introduce her?” I asked.“I’m just going to say her name,” he said."
"This is so funny,” said Ellen, noticing the seating arrangement. “Isn’t this funny? Tom, come sit next to Robin. Griffin, sit next to Laura.” I stood up and sat next to Robin while Griffin brought his chair over to Laura. “That’s better,” said Ellen. “Isn’t that better?"
"Do you prefer Mitch? Or is Mitchell better?'.. .. Mitch, I say. Mitch is what my friends called me. 'Well, Mitch it is then,' Morrie says, as if closing a deal. 'And, Mitch?' Yes? 'I hope one day you will think of me as your friend."
"Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation."
"Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners."
"Wolf's wool is the best wool, but it cannot be sheared, because the wolf will not comply. With knowledge as with wolves' surliness, the student studies voluntarily, refusing to be less than individual. He "gives his opinion and then rests upon it"; he renders service when there is no reward, and is too reclusive for some things to seem to touch him; not because he has no feeling but because he has so much."
"Travel teaches as much as a teacher."
"Education does not exist for the benefit of students or for the benefit of their parents. It's exists for the benefit of social order. You do not need to be a student or have a child who is a student to benefit from education. Every second of every day of your life, you benefit from education."
"The Angry Face" cannot deliver the knowledge correctly often!"
"Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist."
"Trekking means a travelling experience with a thrilling excitement."
"Travelling the road will tell you more about the road than the google will tell you about the road."
"Travelling shouldn't be just a tour, it should be a tale."
"The Angry Face, cannot deliver the knowledge correctly often!"
"The desire for knowledge begins with searching and seeking."
"...he had also acquired a peculiar academic quirk. During exams, he knew all the answers but wasn’t able to successfully map his answers to the right questions. So as soon as an exam started, he simply started putting his answers in the order in which he remembered them. Every time he moved to a new class, his parents made the new teachers aware of this snag. The teachers acknowledged it and reassured the parents that they’d match his answers against the appropriate questions."
"This strange new test called PISA, which stood for the Program for International Student Assessment. Instead of a typical test question, which might ask which combination of coins you needed to buy something, PISA asked you to design your own coins, right there in the test booklet."
Amanda Ripley, The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
"PhD made me poorer, without money, but richer in thoughts."
"You are always a student and life is your teacher. Always be curious, enthusiastic, and open to change."
"A student must be humbled to trained by teacher."
"The greatest gift for yourself is to study to the highest degree."
"There is no substitute for education."
"Reading will help you to discover your sacred-self"
"The more you learn, the more you know, you don’t know enough."
"Every student adheres to strict discipline"
"We must never forget our teachers and our lecturers. In their individual capacities have contributed to our academic, professional and personal development."
"If you fail an examination, it means you have not yet master the subject. With diligent study and understanding, you will succeed in passing the exams."
"Success is end result of many combats."
"If you want to be a graduate student, you have to fall in love with reading."
"Graduate study is an intensive education."
"Curiosity is the beginning of all creativity."
"Curiosity is the art of creativity."
"During my school years, I was never a brilliant student, but just an average one, with only above average level of curiosity."
Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
"Beethoven said that it's better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be wrong or to embarrass yourself; we are all students in this life, and there is always something more to learn."
"Student engagement is the product of motivation and active learning. It is a product rather than a sum because it will not occur if either element is missing."
Elizabeth F. Barkley, Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty
"Nothing great could ever be achieved, without personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence."
"Your brain needs plenty of rest to function at it's optimal level. Go to sleep!"
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