Parkland Student Quotes

Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have. ~ Brian Tracy

Are we alike
In that in-betweenness?
Can he see,
When I smile my blue eyes back
At his brown ones,
The country-city-woman-girl
Dancer, student
Bewildered
Unbelonging
Yearning? ~ Stasia Ward Kehoe

Now let's see. The class reps on the council this year are therefore Eivind and Marianne!
I looked down at the desk in front of me.
One vote.
How was that possible?
And, to cap it off, the one vote was my own.
But I was the best student in the class! At least in Norwegian! And natural and social sciences! And in math I was the second best, or perhaps the third. But, altogether, who could be better than me?
OK, Eivind won. But one vote? How was that possible?
Hadn't anyone voted for me?
There had to be a mistake somewhere.
No one? ~ Karl Ove Knausgaard

And then one student said that happiness is what happens when you go to bed on the hottest night of the summer, a night so hot you can't even wear a tee-shirt and you sleep on top of the sheets instead of under them, although try to sleep is probably more accurate. And then at some point late, late, late at night, say just a bit before dawn, the heat finally breaks and the night turns into cool and when you briefly wake up, you notice that you're almost chilly, and in your groggy, half-consciousness, you reach over and pull the sheet around you and just that flimsy sheet makes it warm enough and you drift back off into a deep sleep. And it's that reaching, that gesture, that reflex we have to pull what's warm - whether it's something or someone - toward us, that feeling we get when we do that, that feeling of being safe in the world and ready for sleep, that's happiness. ~ Paul Schmidtberger

Light is a student at God's assembly.
Time is a scholar at God's academy.
Truth is a pupil at God's seminary.
Life is a graduate at God's university. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The attitude of a student in history should be do not accept anything until proven otherwise. Doubt everything including your parentage! Including your parentage! ~ Teodoro A. Agoncillo

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest. ~ Goldwin Smith

Don't take on more student loans than your future-self can handle. ~ Carol H. Cox

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body. ~ Warren Buffett

In the New Year, you carry all the experiences of the past years and that is the greatest power of every New Year! This year again, you are less student and more master! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The student as boxer, not fencer. The fencer's weapon is picked up and put down again. The boxer's is part of him. All he has to do is clench his fist. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Don't worry about people stealing an idea," he once told a student. "If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. ~ Walter Isaacson

Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences. ~ Daniel J. Siegel

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him. ~ Jean Rostand

School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs. ~ Eli Broad

As you work to become a better student, remember that learning is far more important than the numbers on your transcript. I know it can be hard sometimes to remember what you're in school for. In some places, students go crazy over a tenth of a point - but this is an unhealthy and unsustainable way to manage your education. The real reason you're in school is to grow as a person and fulfill your potential. ~ Stefanie Weisman

I loved American filmmakers when I was growing up. I didn't get to film school or anything. I was a very bad student. I just devoured film, but there was a point in my teens when I started to run a little film society. ~ Paul Haggis

I didn't sing for years and years, but I started playing harp when I was maybe 9 or 10. I had actually wanted to play for years leading up to that, but no teacher in our little town would take me on as a student, because I was too young. ~ Joanna Newsom

Anybody gets to ask questions about any fiction-related issues she wants. No question about literature is stupid. You are forbidden to keep yourself from asking a question or making a comment because you fear it will sound obvious or unsophisticated or lame or stupid. Because critical reading and prose fiction are such hard, weird things to try to study, a stupid-seeming comment or question can end up being valuable or even profound.

I am deadly-serious about creating a classroom environment where everyone feels free to ask or speak about anything she wishes. So any student who groans, smirks, mimes machines-gunning or onanism, chortles, eye-rolls, or in any way ridicules some other student's in-class question/comment will be warned once in private and on the second offense will be kicked out of class and flunked, no matter what week it is. If the offender is male, I am also apt to find him off-campus and beat him up. ~ David Foster Wallace

I love Halloween. It reminds me of my happy childhood days as a student at Wampus Elementary School in Armonk, N.Y., when we youngsters used to celebrate Halloween by making decorations out of construction paper and that white paste that you could eat. ~ Dave Barry

The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall. ~ Frederick Rolfe

And what happened was, it's the same thing an older, more successful writer of ficition might say to a student: write about what you know. And what I knew - of course I knew jazz, but I also knew country, blues and some rock and roll. And that came out. ~ Larry Coryell

One overly simplistic idea is that we can improve student performance by just by giving financial incentives to parents, teachers, or kids. Unfortunately, there is little evidence that such incentives are effective, but nuances matter. ~ Richard H. Thaler

The best answer to the question, 'What is the most effective method of teaching?' is that it depends on the goal, the student, the content, and the teacher. But the next best answer is, 'Students teaching other students.' ~ Wilbert J. McKeachie

Laney held up a hand. "I checked it out. He went there on scholarship and paid the rest with student loans. And he's good looking, too. Nate and I met him for dinner last night, and I subtly learned that he's looking to meet someone"
"How did you learn that?"
"I asked him if he was looking to meet someone"
"that is subtle ~ Julie James

Malcolm believed, by the way, in Student Power: not only did he feel that the college-educated black, if he could retain (as he must) his sense of reality and history, and refrain from being absorbed into the white world by its material enticements, was obviously better equipped to cope with the problems besetting his people in America, but he also believed, or hoped, that the white college student was more receptive to change than were his parents. ~ Malcolm X

Google was now my teacher.
I was a student of the world. ~ Vanessa Garden

I went to uni and then drama school afterwards and lived in quite a few student houses. ~ Greg McHugh

As all born teachers, he was primarily a student. ~ Steven Pressfield

The best student in the world can only be as good as their teacher ~ Joshua Teya

A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests. ~ Alma Gluck

The teacher can only provide the lessons, but the student ultimately decides what to learn. ~ Bryant McGill

As a student, I don't have a lot of expenses. I buy food. I play a sport. But that's about it. ~ Marques Brownlee

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their 'critical thinking.' ~ David Harsanyi