Student Quotations | Page 5

My whole sophomore year, as a student and as an athlete, was horrible. I had no energy and I had a lot of problems focusing. I didn't do well in the classroom. I was having trouble on the mat.

My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'

My priority is providing the maximum academic challenge for each student in the district regardless of their ability.

My point is not only about teaching and having the ability to learn but also the ability to retain so you don't have to tell them the same thing over and over again, ... It's like a teacher. When you give them a test, you don't know what that student knows. How do you give a test here except on the field? Roger Craig told me, 'Never assume that they know. You can assume they should know, but there's no guarantee.'

My main priorities are to increase the student numbers, keep the school functioning well and maintain a superior academic environment for the students.

Many feel we have too many lawyers already. ... In my view, new programs, new campuses and new schools should be primarily driven by demands of the marketplace and not by the demands of a potential student body.

Living on campus is not just about a convenient commute to work. My residence at The George Washington University is about being available in the case of student or campus-wide emergencies.

Loans should be taken out after a student has fully exhausted other options, such as grants and scholarships, that do not need to be repaid. The bottom line is that there are several low-cost options for students and their parents to cover the cost of college.

Marcus made a mistake, like every other student on this campus. I don't feel there's any question that Marcus has profited. Some people miss shots and continue to miss shots because they don't learn. Marcus has learned a great deal.

Mary, a former student of mine, and I just broke bones up, dug things out of them and just destroyed bones, and she's very good at that, ... Mary's discoveries produced what appeared to be blood tissues and red blood cells, very similar to what we see in modern day ostriches.

Liubov Andreevna: Are you still a student? Trofimov: I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

I was unemployed after finishing Save the Last Dance and I went out for this other role. It wasn't like, "Okay, now I'm going to do tv." It was like, I have to pay my rent and my student loan, what can I do? I'm lucky that the show is doing well, so it looks like I've got this balanced plan.

I was under the impression that you had to be a student to be on it.

I think one other aspect of him that it pretty unique is he is such a good player and student plus how he's behaved off the court.

It does give us a perspective that we didn't have, which is the perspective of the student who drops out.

I think his goal is to be a coach and he'll be able to do some things as a student assistant coach that a lot of people can't do. He'll get a couple of years of training that a lot of guys have to wait for until after they graduate.

I think it will be a close one. It depends on who comes out to vote. I think it'll have a lot of support from the organizations in this building (Student Union) because it will allow this to be a student union.

I think knowing it's a student concern will help them find the money a little faster.

John really took a liking to me. He talked to me about the off-court stuff, about the pitfalls that trap some guys. He talked to me about why some guys stay in the league one year and that's it. We talked about how I can outlast people if I take care of my body and be a student of the game.

Just in the image of Student Government it's important to have a smooth election process.

Just in case you think I play only precious metal flutes, let me tell you that I have a silver plated student model with a silver head and it is excellent.

We notified our principals (Wednesday) and our student support service department is working closely with schools to enroll the children, and we will enroll them under our homeless child procedures,

We live in such a cynical, postmodern society that if you are offended by something like this, people say, 'Lighten up, it's ironic, it's a joke.' And that's really nice if you're a student of art history. But how many 10-year-olds talk about irony? When you get teased, it doesn't make it any better to know that they're also calling it ironic. It sends the message that it's hip to make fun of Asians.

The academy is a school of choice. If a student finds that it's not for him, then he can go back to his comprehensive high school.

The American Dream is not being dependent on the federal government for your health care, for your automobile, for your college education, for your student loan on and on and on.

That way, it's cheaper for the student and the parent earns the appreciation.

The $12 billion being saved in student loan provisions is a significant percentage of the $40 billion in total savings over five years.

That's the type of person I remember, a student of the game. It doesn't surprise me that he was able to do something like that.

I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church's youth group and in my university student group. I was married before the church's altar; trained at the church's seminaries, ordained deacon and priest at age 24.

I was mesmerized by what it would be like for somebody who was a student of history and archeology to go back to a medieval period and really live it.

I was managing to pay off my student loans, but I was tired of digging in the dirt. I didn't see myself digging myself out of the hole I was digging. I made the decision to leave the real world, and go back to the fake world again.

I was never a bookworm. I remember reading Dr. Seuss, the Hardy Boys, Emil and the Detectives, Chip Hilton, and lots of Mark Twain and Dickens. My athletic ability did nothing but invite taunts. I was an indifferent student and an athlete with delusions of adequacy, dreams of adulation.

I was a poor student before I came to FRC,

I would look at all the student's records, discuss the record with administration at the school, and then I make a decision on what I think is best for the student and the district, ... You don't have a cookie cutter that you can use when you're on a case-by-case basis. You have to trust that my professional judgment would be what's for the best for the district and the kid.

I would like to thank Morgan State University for the opportunity to coach the men's basketball team for the last five years. In addition, I would like to thank all the past and present student athletes for their hard work and dedication.

I would love to go for higher, but I think 15 percent will be a high enough jump that the student body will recognize it,

My brother was a grad student at Duke, and he gave me a Cameron Crazies shirt, so I thought I'd twist it up a little bit.

Most of the guys here play college hockey and we get it every time from the student sections so it's something that should be expected. I definitely thought it was anti-American, but at the same time a lot of guys in the locker room thrived on that. Almost every Canadian I've met is a great person. That's just hockey. They didn't like the other team.

Midyear adjustments are less about moving teachers to new classrooms and more about how within a building, what options there are for assigning kids in. As a last resort, we might get a situation where we actually move a student to a neighboring school.

Michael, just like any other student at WSU, utilized procedures in place and is currently ready to enroll for spring semester. He is eligible to participate in all football-related activities this spring once enrolled, including spring practice. Right now, we are focusing on his academic performance this spring and his progress toward a degree from WSU to ensure he is eligible in the fall.

When the bus arrived at the school, children were telling administrators that a student on the bus was showing a weapon.

We have one student who's taking 10 credit hours, and another only taking three, ... One thing we're looking at is only paying for once class per student instead of allowing students to receive reimbursement for three or four classes.

You have to do it student by student. There is no cookie-cutter way of working with these students. The trick is understanding what a student's specific needs are at any point in time.

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

We continue to place an emphasis on improving student performance on standardized test scores and build a community support network for our at-risk students. The ultimate goal is for each one to succeed and flourish.

We were not able to find a sponsor this year. But we do hope to have a team again in the future when we have greater student interest and a sponsor to assist them.

We were looking for something that was valid and reliable . . . for something that would measure teacher effectiveness that was neutral. This measures student improvement and the value that teachers bring to student improvement.

We can post announcements on Blackboard, events that Program Council is doing and important issues that come up with the student government.

We put our ideas together. Andrew was an outstanding student. He had many friends on the team and throughout the student body. Andrew was well liked and highly respected.

We have to see out opportunities to use (our talents) to help other people, ... The Miss OSU title will get me in places that maybe being a student athlete won't.

We hope Sequoia can continue to develop. She is becoming a better student of the game, but her outside shooting has to improve and she must be more consistent.

While Ashley is a quality shortstop, she can also play second, third and even first if needed. That is the kind of softball player you want on your team. She is also a first class student and person as well.

We received a very positive report. One of the things they cited was our strong university support. They also recognized the quality of our student body and facilities and the rigor of our curriculum.

We don't see student housing as something that needs artificial stimulation from us.

We estimate that families will pay about $2,400 in personal and miscellaneous expenses each year, but that's just for our school. How much a student spends will depend on the location of the school and on the student's spending habits.

We're always dealing with the administration, and the typical student really isn't, so we're trying to bridge the gap and explain to them in more, I guess, casual terms the reasons for some of the rules that are in place.

We are thrilled that Richard Edgar has decided to continue his academic and athletic career at George Mason. Richard is an outstanding person with impeccable credentials as both a person and a student athlete.

Well, I've found myself a lot of times with student manuscripts, saying to them that it worries me that their work seems hermetically sealed.

Well, we have never had a homicide here at school, thank goodness. We have had some of our kids go off campus and gotten killed. We had one of out student that was shot in a drive-by on U.S. 75, but really, we don't see that type of crime.

We must not equate assessment to testing. Assessment is an ongoing process. It is indeed the way we do business - constantly monitoring student development and the outcomes of our educational activity.

When you're looking at someone at the lower end, you're sometimes looking at parents who are working two jobs, maybe three. Time is limited, and transportation. You can't just get up and drive your student across town to school.

When you're talking about a student who gets (government grants) or who has financial aid, they typically have money for books,

We had turnover within the coaching staff and within the personnel of the team which are negative signs, ... Some of our student athletes were having trouble succeeding academically, which is a bad trend. ... I think this coach will restore a lot of that discipline.

We have a high-need population that benefits from the club. The Mead site services a student population that has the highest percentage of students in disadvantaged circumstances.

We have a form they use. It's a student application, and they have to tell us why they want to be a part of the mentoring program, and then why they think they're qualified to mentor elementary students.

You are going to make more, so it stands the reason you should pay more, ... Like most things, you pay for what you get and if you look at a student in the College of Engineering, they are looking at a higher starting salary than most.

We wanted to involve the student community, that's why we chose Delhi University.

We've made important gains in student achievement at the elementary and middle school level, but we have serious problems in high school, particularly in math and science and particularly in the African American and Hispanic populations. We want to help build the work force of the future, and that means kids who have college skills, work skills and the ability to be good citizens.

We have Canadians on our hockey team, obviously, but we also have a good number of Canadians in our general student population. It feels good for them, I think, to have that. And we're close to home for them so their families can see them play.

Using the information gained during student focus groups, we're able to design a concise instrument that focuses on the most pressing issues.

With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.

With the disappearance of the Ebony Student Association, the Black Student Union was a necessity.

With the current pensions crisis, there is a real danger that we are going to have a generation who, having to pay off their student debts, are unable to save for their own retirement or support their pension-age parents.

We've done a number of other searches, not specifically related to this, but because of a greater student awareness.

We have always thought highly of Wendy ever since she was a student here. We've followed her progress over the years, and when an opportunity opened up for her, we made her an offer and she accepted.

We can't know that every single student will have had the opportunity to take these courses. But we believe we set up enough options that it's likely that a vast number of students would have had the opportunity.

We can't hold back because the student movement will continue and there could be some risks. There should be a strike next week.

We had one student who was participating in the National Student Exchange in New Orleans, ... Needless to say, they came back to us.

We have the impression the government has decided to respond to the student movement with truncheons and repression.

Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to a one-room shack in Beijing in order to join the student protests.

We need to find a balance and it needs to be managed but you cannot totally remove politics from student life.

We intend to ask the Department of Education a series of questions to clarify exactly what this program entails and what measures are in place to minimize the intrusions on student privacy. Schools teach by example. It would indeed be unfortunate for us to raise future generations to expect that they have no expectation of privacy.

While we recognize the valuable contribution made by all of our substitute teachers for the work they do in maintaining the progression of learning, the outstanding example set by these individuals is particularly noteworthy. They have demonstrated a genuine dedication to student achievement.

We gave the University a good win. And we appreciate all the fans, especially the student support.

We aren't sure whether it is an older male or not. He could be student there.

We have a very arts-rich curriculum. I could get rid of all that. But if I increased my test scores, does that mean a student is better educated? No.

We have a student who helps out with the video -- he tore his ACL the other day. That's how it's been.

We have a student body that is fired up about Bears basketball. It's a whole different level, the best our students have been since I've been here. This is a big game.

We haven't played in Brookings before. But we have gotten a lot of requests from student to come and play.

The QEP is a carefully designed and focused course of action that addresses a topic, which enhances student learning at the institution. The QEP will be implemented over a five year period and will be infused throughout campus and involve in-class and out-of-class learning. All students will benefit from the initiatives that evolve from its implementation.

We'll move from just being able to talk about the individual student to the realm of let's talk about instructional practices. That's the rational behind it -- they don't have enough time to talk yet about what am I doing as a teacher.

To be competitive with the Ivy League schools, the coastal schools, we absolutely need chairs and professorships. It recognizes our very best faculty and provides them with unrestricted resources to try new ideas, things they wouldn't otherwise be able to get money for. It supports undergraduate student researchers and gets them in labs. These are things that are critical, and our competitors have chairs and professorships, and we need to as well to keep people here.

We're not trying to be destructive. We just want to work towards positive change and a more user-friendly student association.

We are required to tell the student what they are accused of doing, reveal the evidence against them, allow the student to tell their side of the story and make a decision.

We are regulating the conduct of the student while the student is in school. The student doesn't have the right to engage in gang activity while in school.

To be tested in a game-situation like this in front of 1,500 fans and their great student body, we hadn't seen anything like that. Sure, we needed it. Our players understood when you're under the gun, you have to find an extra gear and dig down and concentrate a little bit harder and we did that in the second half.

The police received a call from a pay phone in the high school that a student heard a conversation in the bathroom about a bomb, ... But someone may not have overheard anything.

What we have to do with tuition is to make sure it invests resources (and) delivers results. That we actually have a framework, together with student aid that will improve access, not take away from it.

When we ran for Student Government last year, we ran on a higher education reform. This campaign is our answer to some of the promises that we made.

Where ever he's been, he's a winner. He's a wonderful young man with a lot of great experience. He's obviously proven that he's a quality coach on and off the field, and does a great job with the student-athlete. He makes baseball fun. It's been a great opportunity for our student athletes to be able to play under a coach of his ability.