Ravi Zacharias Quotes

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

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.'

If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.

Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention.

Over the years, my students influenced me greatly, and I've learned many lessons from them. I have an immense amount of respect for them, and I think that respect for your audience is the foremost requirement for anyone who wants to write.

I think universities are trying to figure out how we could use what we know about learning to change our education system, but it is sort of funny that they don't necessarily seem to be consulting the people who are sitting right there on campus.

I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.

I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

All children are born with stars in their eyes, and they are curious. It is important for teachers to be careful not to kill this curiosity. A lot can go wrong. Children can be teased, even by teachers.

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

Students now see college more as a credentialing institution rather than an academic institution.

Under the old American system the whole body of students at a university were confined to a single course, for which the majority cared little and very many cared nothing, and, as a result, widespread idleness and dissipation were inevitable. Under the new system, presenting various courses, and especially courses in various sciences, appealing to different tastes and aims, the great majority of students are interested, and consequently indolence and dissipation have steadily diminished

Higher education is now the business of delivering consumer satisfaction.

Professors gravitate to the bright, well-prepared students. They are easier to teach, and they appear to profit most from instruction, which may simply mean they are most like the professors. But in the increasing pluralism and decreasing professionalism of colleges and universities in the next decades, the master teacher is likely to be the one who can provide context for many kinds of students.

Schools were not just places to learn. They were epicenters of social revolution.

This is an increasingly diversifying society, and people are coming into much closer contact with each other than they ever did. I find that a problem for a university, because bumping up against people who disagree with you is fundamental to the creation of new knowledge. And so universities can't go silent. You can't have a place where it's not permitted to make a certain kind of argument. But you can have a place which forbids epithets to be thrown at people.

Saudi women far outnumber their male counterparts on university campuses but are reduced to watching men far less qualified control every aspect of their lives.

They [college fraternities] are all very risky operations for young people to be involved in .... Fraternities are part of an industry that has tremendous risk and a tremendous record of rape, serious injury, and death, and the vast majority of them share common risk management policies that are fundamentally flawed. Most of them are awash in alcohol, and most of them are bereft of any meaningful adult supervision.

Abolish Fraternities: If a corporation had a division that didn’t fit their business model, failed to yield and adequate return or caused reputational harm they would get rid of it.