379 quotes found
“The difference between a good and a poor student is result”
“Collegiate life presents a student with innumerable opportunities to engender personal growth by responding to a dynamic social, athletic, and academic environment. Students instigate personal deve...”
“As long as high schools strive to list the number of Ivy League schools their graduates attend and teachers pile on work without being trained to identify stress-related symptoms, I fear for our ch...”
“They [students] had two common, strongly held expectations: the college should exhibit the behavior it expected from students and hold true to its espoused values.”
“And the final product of our training must be neither a psychologist nor a brick mason, but a man. And to make men, we must have ideals, broad, pure, and inspiring ends of living, not sordid money-...”
“Education leads to intellectual life.”
“If you want to be a graduate student, you have to fall in love with reading.”
“I had an absurd desire to go down to her and make sure she was all right, and stay with her until dawn. I also had a fierce wish to bludgeon the two frat boys to death with a shovel.”
“It was a time before Facebook and Instagram and texting. I imagine it must be easier now, for college students. Home must not feel so far away anymore. But how do you cut the apron strings if the s...”
“Our first kiss was there on the bridge in the woods. How do you describe a first kiss? It is like trying to hold water in your hands. There is an ancient Chinese proverb that compares kissing to dr...”
“You ought to endure and complete your own race of life.”
“For this very short time in your life, and possibly never again, you will be given a very unique gift: a supremely rich environment with ample time, space, safety and people to explore whatever int...”
“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”
“The most effective learning takes place in the classroom, where you can easily raise your hand, engage in spontaneous discussions with classmates and faculty, turn to the person next to you to ask ...”
“Although the terms teaching and learning are typically paired, those of us who teach know that students don't always learn. When I complained about this early in my teaching career, a colleagues ch...”
“i don't think college is something you should tough out.”
“I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to surround yourself with people who are better than you, and I was now living that mantra.”
“There are some things you cant learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.”
“Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular monthsthey're like dog months.”
“Tall, dark, and hot leaned against a pillar, watching me as I took my place in line. Tousled dark hair went every which way on his head. His eyes were slitted and intense, like he might need to hav...”
