students

Today is not just another ordinary day. It is an opportunity to do, or say, something that just might inspire someone to greater becoming...especially a wayward youth.

Such was the case with most unhappy students; they avoided even one another, so intent on their own unhappiness they failed to notice the other lost souls around them.

God, I don't really understand You but I know I can hug YOU..

Farid asked, 'Do American teachers care about every student?'I thought about a humanities teacher I__ worked with in Korea and more recently a science teacher I__ worked with in Germany. I said, 'I think most schools have a resident idiot.

Being a successful student is about more than reading, writing, and 'rithmetic. It's about being a skilled negotiator, a keen observer, and a master planner.

On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?

You don__ really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam.

Don__ you know that__ what college is about...students spending years gathering useless information they__l never use again, going hopelessly into debt, just so they feel smarter than the rest of their family? I mean, that__ why I worked so hard to get here, anyway.

Schoolgirls are not distractions. They are students. Teach them something other than misogyny.

An individual school can handle a resident idiot from time to time, but an entire school system is only as good as its weakest leader.

The only thing worse than losing hope is to be the reason someone else loses hope.

I must endure, fighting the temptation simply to become slack-jawed like most of my school 'peers' (they wish!), who will themselves into a collective, vacant, trancelike state for the duration of each class. (Although I sometimes secretly envy their ability to empty their minds completely for a full fifty minutes, reanimating only at the sound of a bell, like Pavlov's dogs...)

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.

The enemy of learning is knowing.

It is said, in a fire, everyone runs away from it save for the fireman who run towards it. When dealing with students, be the fireman.

To teach, learn. To learn, teach.

The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change?

I meet them in this stadium, strangers at opposing desks until I wave my red flag.