Student Quotes

He had never got so much back for himself from any pupil as he did from Miss Kronborg. From the first she had stimulated him; something in her personality invariably affected him. Now that he was feeling his way toward her voice, he found her more interesting than ever before. She lifted the tedium of the winter for him, gave him curious fancies and reveries. Musically, she was sympathetic to him. Why this was true, he never asked himself. He had learned that one must take where and when one can the mysterious mental irritant that rouses one's imagination; that it is not to be had by order. She often wearied him, but she never bored him.

~ Willa Cather

The question is not can you wear your father's shoes?. The question is can you walk in your father's shoes?. It is one thing having a mentor and it is another thing to become like your mentor.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the street’s burn.

~ Daniel Amory

Perhaps I occasionally sought to give, or inadvertently gave, to the student a sense of battle on the intellectual battlefield. If all you do is to give them a faultless and complete and uninhabited architectural masterpiece, then you do not help them to become builders of their own.

~ Carl-Gustaf Rossby

I am a lifelong learner.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I've always felt that I did well as a student because I lacked confidence.

~ Denton Cooley

A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

It was a failure of pedagogical nerve, she reminded herself, to give up on a student.

~ Paul Russell

...once students have been taught that learning is tedious, difficult, and useless, they will never learn another lesson.

~ Robin Hobb

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.

~ Felix Bloch

To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he become frustrated. The same outlook applies to the genius of the peoples as a whole.

~ Fritz Zwicky

Student food. His eyes went to the tomato on the sill. Whatever's in the refrigerator over pasta.

~ Kim Harrison

He who teaches the Bible is never a scholar, he is always a student.

~ Elizabeth George

In the learning process, a learner does encounter some difficulty. But with diligent, you will master the act.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you feel good you want to go out into the big wide world and make a positive difference. You feel love when you feel good and you want to give that love to everyone you meet. As you go along, you find that most others want what you have and they are usually very willing students, wanting to learn what you already learned so long ago.

~ Kate Mcgahan

The teachers of my life saved my life and sent me out prepared for whatever life I was meant to lead. Like everyone else, I had some bad ones and mediocre ones, but I never had one that I thought was holding me back because of idleness or thoughtlessness. They spent their lives with the likes of me and I felt safe during the time they spent with me. The best of them made me want to be just like them. I wanted young kids to look at me the way I looked at the teachers who loved me. Loving them was not difficult for a boy like me. They lit a path for me, and one that I followed with joy.

~ Pat Conroy

The stars glittered in the sky and as the number of people at the party grew there were merging conversations and laughter and bodies moving in outlines around the kegs of beer in a curtsy of youth.

~ Daniel Amory

Pride adversely affects all our relationships—our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind. Our degree of pride determines how we treat our God and our brothers and sisters. Christ wants to lift us to where He is. Do we desire to do the same for others?

~ Ezra Taft Benson

I consider the two years in Beaufort when I taught high school as perhaps the happiest time of my life. My attraction to melodrama and suffering had not yet overwhelmed me, but signs of it were surfacing. No one had warned me that a teacher could fall so completely in love with his students that graduation seemed like the death of a small civilization.

~ Pat Conroy

A good student learns from his teacher. A great student learns to teach himself.

~ A.p. Sweet

Without books no one can be a good teacher nor even a good student of this art.

~ Fiore Dei Liberi

The more you know the more you need to learn.

~ Steve Ahn

Parents, don’t invest in your child's teaching; invest in your child's learning.

~ Steve Ahn

For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

~ Orson Scott Card

Fitness determines productivity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Never compete with your master, because that is disrespect to him! You are your only rival, you compete with yourself, go beyond yourself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

~ Don Roff

The Roman Catholic portrait at the reception of the Indian YMCA displayed the generic Christ, the timorous, blonde-haired, blue-eyed face upturned to the heavens, a lost middle-class student searching for guidance in an inhospitable world.

~ Amit Chaudhuri

I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A.

~ Gayle Forman

You can't have a goal without determination, because without the determination the goal will die.

~ Patrick L. Turner

...your zeal to face life's rough and tumble, your ardor to accept the responsibilities of adulthood is hardly congruent with the aspirations of most graduate students...' He shook his head of disagreeable hair. 'I need not tell you,' he deplored, sinking to paralipsis, 'that there resides in almost every one of 'em the unconscious desire not to grow up. For once the academic goal is attained and the doctorate irradicably abbreviated after the name, the problem of facing the world is confronted. The subtlest, most unremitting drive of the student is his unconscious proclivity to postpone the acceptance of responsibility as long as possible.

~ Millard Kaufman

As a kid I was deeply curious as to what college life would be like. Now that I am a university professor, I realize that this was a premonition that once I entered college I would never get out, and that my matriculation would turn into some sort of life sentence.

~ James Kakalios

We're all born with curiosity, but at some point, school usually manages to knock that out of us.

~ Max Tegmark

The very least thing one should learn at the university is how to reach new knowledge.

~ Osman Doluca

It was Monday morning. Swaminathan was reluctant to open his eyes. he considered Monday specially unpleasant in the calendar. After the delicious freedom of Saturday and Sunday, it was difficult to get into the Monday mood of work and discipline. He shuddered at the very thought of school: the dismal yellow building; the fire-eyed Vedanayagam, his class teacher, and headmaster with his thin long cane...

~ R.k. Narayan

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

~ Henry Adams

Curiosity also makes a great student.

~ Gemma Malley

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I tried to bunked classes, I skipped lectures, I cheated in exams, I lied to my teachers and some stuff were taken for granted when I was a student before. I am not proud about it. Of course, I learned from that experience. I learned that everyone has a chance to change. It doesn't mean that if I am dumbass before and you call me the same thing now. Because now, I work hard, play the game well and strive for excellence. This is me now, a guy with a strong grit in my heart.

~ Nathaniel E. Quimada

The student has his Rome, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow