Student Responsibility Quotes

Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework.

When I was in school, I was too short to erase the blackboard. It was my job to put away the chairs.

They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking after the large vivarium where they happily passed their days was given to first-year students, on the basis that if they got things wrong there wouldn't be too much education wasted.

When I went to a school in Japan, they told me that both the teachers and students perform cleaning tasks here to keep the schools clean. I wondered why can't we do it in India.

It's important for students to take their studies seriously.

I would say this to my students all the time, it's about 30% you as the teacher and 70% about them. They tend to think that their role is to be the baby bird in a nest and you're going to feed them? They're going to feed themselves, or they're going to starve.

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

I am teaching you now about it, but how many of you will practice it?

Schoolwork came kind of natural to me, but when I brought home a grade that wasn't up to par, my parents let me know it.

I believe that over 90 percent of LU students try hard to comply with the behavioral code and are supportive of the school's mission.

I was the kid who'd get up in class and tell the teacher, 'But we were supposed to have a test today! I studied for it!'

I chose my classes based on which professors did not take attendance, and then I traded Padres tickets for notes from class. I wasn't the student of the month.

Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.

Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers, and they tell you things about themselves. During a school year, I'll get e-mails asking about the books. I'll give them information, but I won't do their homework for them.