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 ~
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 ~
Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.
~By Cesar Chavez ~
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
~By Elijah Cummings ~
Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
~By Bob Beauprez ~
There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.
~By Frederick M. Vinson ~
When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.
~By Deng Xiaoping ~
Now, after the communist take-over in 1948, the amount of feature films produced dwindled to three a year, while the school was, you know, every year another three, four, five students.
~By Milos Forman ~
The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.
~By William Glasser ~
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.
~By Major Owens ~
Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world.
~By Richard Lugar ~
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 ~
My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work.
~By Robert B. Laughlin ~
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 ~
Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.
~By Santiago Durango ~
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 ~
The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.
~By Allen Tate ~
I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.
~By Robert Morgan ~
Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.
~By Merce Cunningham ~
As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
~By Bobby Knight ~
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 ~
Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.
~By Tom Ford ~
Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
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 ~
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
~By Woody Allen ~
We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.
~By William Glasser ~
Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?
~By Mark E. Smith ~
Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests.
~By Mike Fitzpatrick ~
Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.
~By John Deacon ~
Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
~By Joseph E. Stiglitz ~
Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?
~By Theodore Gericault ~
A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.
~By Robert Morgan ~
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 ~
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 ~
The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.
~By Robert Mayer ~
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 ~
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 am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
~By Carl Sagan ~
Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth Day in 1970, and out of that Earth Day a lot of students got involved in saving the environment, or trying to.
~By Pete McCloskey ~
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 ~
'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 ~
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 ~
The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.
~By Brian De Palma ~
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
~By Cesar Chavez ~
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.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
~By William Glasser ~
Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.
~By Bobby Scott ~
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
~By William Glasser ~
I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.
~By Kathy Acker ~
I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule?
~By George Wald ~
I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
~By Burt Bacharach ~
At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.
~By William Glasser ~
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 ~
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 ~
The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses.
~By Gaston Caperton ~
The most important thing taught to my students is to not be so photo realist in what they depict.
~By Frank Bruno ~
I hope that the institution will succeed in maximizing students' potential in the same way. I will give all of my stock to this institution. It will own the Bose Corporation and be funded by the Bose Corporation.
~By Amar Bose ~
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 ~
With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level.
~By Sue Kelly ~
If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.
~By David Riesman ~
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 ~
I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else.
~By Robert Morgan ~
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 ~
We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
~By Barack Obama ~
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 ~
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 ~
If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?
~By Adam Schiff ~
I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
~By Jesse Jackson ~
Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
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 ~
I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.
~By Arno Penzias ~
Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs.
~By Anne Campbell ~
Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.
~By Conrad Burns ~
Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic.
~By Mark Foley ~
I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.
~By Kathy Acker ~
Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.
~By Harry Bridges ~
I'm prepared to fight as hard as I can against unions entering the University on behalf of our students.
~By Ruth J. Simmons ~
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 ~
Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.
~By Elton Gallegly ~
The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy.
~By Norm Coleman ~
Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.
~By William Glasser ~
A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.
~By Anna Louise Strong ~
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 ~
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 have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
~By Josef Albers ~
And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.
~By Donald Judd ~
This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.
~By William Glasser ~
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 ~
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 ~
Our students learn more in 30 days than one could learn in 30 years without our training. To really maximize your potential as an umpire, you need to get a solid foundation as soon as you can.
~By Jim Evans ~
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 ~
You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.
~By Dave Eggers ~
With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world.
~By Katherine Dunham ~
American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
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