The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.
~By Frank Murphy ~
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
~By John Ciardi ~
I could not agree more. The students of Delaware State often looked to the school as their chance, their hand up, their hope. And they gave their all.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
~By Carl Sagan ~
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
~By Allen Ginsberg ~
Just the example Delaware State University graduates set by the way they live their lives, should be an inspiration to other high school students to go to Delaware State.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.
~By Sonny Perdue ~
If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.
~By Janet Napolitano ~
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me.
~By Jill Scott ~
How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority.
~By Neal Boortz ~
A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone.
~By Craig Kilborn ~
Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status and locations.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.
~By Kenny Marchant ~
During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.
~By Rudolph A. Marcus ~
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.
~By Alan Perlis ~
Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.
~By Bernie Worrell ~
I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students.
~By Jonathan Kozol ~
Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it's all about making money. They know people want to see what they've seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow.
~By Tobe Hooper ~
Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.
~By Jeanne Shaheen ~
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.
~By Ashley Montagu ~
I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.
~By Jim Harrison ~
And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.
~By Donald Judd ~
Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.
~By Jeb Bush ~
I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.
~By Merton Miller ~
However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students.
~By Aaron Klug ~
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
~By Amos Bronson Alcott ~
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
~By William Glasser ~
It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here.
~By Ruth J. Simmons ~
These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where they go to college. Its in their very nature and it is something they expect.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need.
~By Gordon Smith ~
The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.
~By Robert Hofstadter ~
The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.
~By James S. Coleman ~
If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?
~By Paul Wellstone ~
Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.
~By Christopher Dodd ~
In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play.
~By Danny Glover ~
Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.
~By John Clayton ~
As far as YU faculty and students are concerned, the love for Israel is very strong. Probably about three thousand of our graduates have settled in Israel. On average, every year 650 male and female students study in Israel for a minimum of one year.
~By Norman Lamm ~
I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.
~By Ric Keller ~
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.
~By Felix Bloch ~
We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
~By Patrick Stewart ~
While most students were trying to draw one beautiful finished piece, I would be in the background drawing dozens of studies at different angles to use later.
~By Frank Bruno ~
The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
~By Robert M. Hutchins ~
Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition.
~By Charles Vest ~
Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.
~By Godfrey Reggio ~
There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community.
~By Jeanne Shaheen ~
Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country.
~By William Kunstler ~
So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.
~By Dave Eggers ~
Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.
~By David Horowitz ~
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.
~By Frederick Sanger ~
It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.
~By Edmond H. Fischer ~
I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
All students can learn.
~By Christopher Morley ~
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.
~By Ernest Istook ~
Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
~By William Glasser ~
The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime.
~By Edward Tufte ~
Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.
~By Thad Cochran ~
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
~By Barnaby C. Keeney ~
Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
~By Harrison Salisbury ~
'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.
~By Dianne Feinstein ~
My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.
~By Christa McAuliffe ~
Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?
~By William Glasser ~
The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.
~By Holly Near ~
The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.
~By Donna Tartt ~
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
~By Sidney Hook ~
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.
~By Frederick Pollock ~
During the final two weeks of training, our students work simulated game situations in which our staff members role-play as players, managers, and coaches. They are given immediate feedback following each camp game.
~By Jim Evans ~
I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.
~By Clark Kerr ~
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
~By Robert Orben ~
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.
~By Robert M. Hutchins ~
There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing that parents need to be able to evaluate, and students themselves, when they make a selection.
~By Margaret Spellings ~
And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.
~By Dave Eggers ~
When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.
~By David Horowitz ~
And, in the case of schools, or anything else, if you have something that is forcing you to do better than you did the day before, it makes you look forward and it makes you think in a way that's going to make the product better, which is the students and the education.
~By Craig Benson ~
It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!
~By Robert Musil ~
While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.
~By Bobby Scott ~
Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math; parents must push and help their children to meet this goal.
~By Ernest Istook ~
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
~By Woody Allen ~
To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.
~By Tom Ford ~
Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch.
~By Ross Martin ~
One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!
~By June Jordan ~
More time on paperwork means less time spent with students or preparing lessons for students. It is as simple as that. The numerous reforms in the bill will go a long way to free our time of special educators.
~By Christopher Bond ~
I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.
~By James Broughton ~
The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.
~By Ron Lewis ~
Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands.
~By Spencer Bachus ~
Most students have thoughts about emigrating to Israel. A significant number go on aliyah. We are proud of our Israel programs, which come at a considerable cost to the university.
~By Norman Lamm ~
In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.
~By William Glasser ~
I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
~By Alan Dundes ~
The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.
~By Pete McCloskey ~
My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.
~By Roger Bannister ~
While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.
~By Jerome Isaac Friedman ~
We created a show and a scenario for college students where they can take what they learn in class every day and apply it to the real world.
~By Ross Martin ~
Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.
~By Cathy McMorris ~
If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.
~By Ruben Hinojosa ~
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