When you're too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning modalities - kinesthetic, auditory, visual, whatever might bring learning to life.
~ Erin Gruwell
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.
~ Allan Bloom
I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.
~ Bell Hooks
Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
~ Harrison Salisbury
With Skype video calling, teachers can provide their students with first-hand knowledge from experts around the world and with other classes who are studying the same subject halfway across the world.
~ Tony Bates
Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.
~ Frederick Pollock
Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
~ Abraham Verghese
There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.
~ Ashley Montagu
It's one thing to make financial aid available to students so they can attend college. It's another thing to design forms that students can actually fill out.
~ Cass Sunstein
Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.
~ Sugata Mitra
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
~ Thomas Sowell
Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
~ Paulo Freire
The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.
~ Jodi Rell
The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
~ Robert M. Hutchins
While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.
~ Bobby Scott
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
~ Seamus Heaney
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.
~ Terry Eagleton
When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.
~ Deng Xiaoping
