Student Growth Quotes

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.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

What we look for in the school is unrealized potential.

College kids want to be coached. They want to be taught. They might resist it a little bit early on, but the more you give, the more you get back.

Education is taken for granted. Teaching shops are different from building character.

During its first year of operation, Florida Virtual School had 77 students. The next year, it had 476 students; then 2,489 students the year after that.

I have seen schools across the country working long and hard to embed a commitment to the unlimited development of every student into their cultures. The result, in terms of motivated learners and test scores, often is spectacular.

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

My dad, who was a teacher, used to tell me that a teacher's goal should be for every one of their students to get an A. If that's your goal every day - to make every student or player learn - then it doesn't matter if you won last year or didn't win. When next year's team shows up, I try to help every player become as good as they can be.

The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.

Our education apparatus can't be one that produces robots. That can happen in laboratory. There has to be overall personality development.

The truly successful teacher is the one you will never need again.

The main difference in the effectiveness of teaching comes from the thoughts the teacher has had during the entire time of his or her existence and brings into the classroom. A teacher concerned with developing humans affects the students quite differently from a teacher who never thinks about such things.

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.

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.

What you really want to do, the objective is to get as many students coming out of there thinking differently than they went in.

I feel that is more important than my work, the influence I have on my students.

Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.

I miss the classroom and the bit I miss the most is the one-on-one personal interactions with the students, those moments when they surprise you with their insightfulness, or their cheekiness.

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

I'm a very happy university professor... the best thing about being a university professor is that you see young people as they're being shaped and molded toward their own future, and you have a chance to be a part of that.

Don't we realise that the student of today is the executive of tomorrow?

Any institutions' alumni are key to its growth. We are focused on giving a global experience to our students.