Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining. – Mark Kennedy
It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students. – Freeman A. Hrabowski III
Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered. – Danica McKellar
Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel. – Ezra Taft Benson
When I’m teaching, I tell my students: It’s all process. Don’t even think of product. – Maxine Hong Kingston
The SAT allows less-privileged students access to universities that previously were the bastions of the wealthy. – Eliot Schrefer
Of course, MIT was notable not just for its faculty but also for its students. And, facing such extremely bright kids as a rookie teacher was something like being thrown to the wolves. – Eric Maskin
Most students have thoughts about emigrating to Israel. A significant number go on aliyah. We are proud of our Israel programs, which come at a considerable cost to the university. – Norman Lamm
A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn’t answer the phone. – Craig Kilborn
I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn’t particularly interested in doing. – Merce Cunningham
Students raised on Park Avenue are born into family situations in which overachieving merely maintains the status quo, and therefore the market is primed for anyone offering services that provide an edge on local peers. – Eliot Schrefer
When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they’re not thinking for themselves. – David Horowitz
In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither. – Dennis Prager
How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook. – Eli Broad
Everyone wrote our obituary but us and the coaches and the kids who stayed with us. The obit was, ‘Vanderbilt will have to leave the Southeastern Conference. All the coaches are leaving, and all the students are transferring.’ – Gordon Gee
This much I’m sure of. Chances for winning = 1 – (# of math students playing)/ (# of math students cheering). That’s a fraction. – Danica McKellar
We need to make college affordable in price, and also have lower-cost student loans and more available grants for students. – Debbie Stabenow
I believe that all students, when asked to be accountable for their actions and to be socially aware citizens, will become agents for change! – Erin Gruwell
There’s lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that’s the kind of thing that parents need to be able to evaluate, and students themselves, when they make a selection. – Margaret Spellings
Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic. – Mark Foley
I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier’s first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations. – David Steinberg
I always tell my students to complicate your characters: never make it easy for the reader. Nobody is ever one thing. That’s what makes characters compelling. – Marlon James
Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests. – Dan Shechtman
Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down. – Erno Rubik