| "A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles ... an amateur promoter, a glad-hander, embryo Rotarian, caf-society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind." »Harold Taylor |
| "Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student." »George Iles |
| "I am a student. Please do not fold, spindle, or mutilate me." »Slogan of the Free Speech Movement, 1964. |
| "JUDGE, n A law student who marks his own papers." »H.L. Mencken |
| "Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait." »A. Whitney Brown |
| "You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses ... storming around about this issue. (On student protesters against Vietnam War)" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in." »Robert J. Kibbee |
| "The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college the task is to help him become a self-educating man." »C. Wright Mills |
| "You can teach a student a lesson for a day but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives." »Clay P. Bedford |
| "The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne." »Robertson Davies |
| "Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation." »Lewis S Feuer |
| "The shortage of student loans may require ... divestiture of certain sorts-stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three-weeks-at-the-beach divestiture." »William John Bennett |
| "It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches." »Robert Hutchins |
| "The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career." »Albert Einstein |
| "In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it." »Albert Einstein |
| "The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done." »Lao Tzu |
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