Academic Growth Quotes

My experience at DePauw was about as beneficial as any experience I've had.

In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

My senior year of high school, I probably wouldn't get so much out of it as if I went to college.

I still believe that the university is a place where people can develop their minds and learn skills, but also they can develop their personalities and their spiritual life.

That's what university life is all about. Challenging, questioning, enjoying good people and good friends, and pushing yourself to the limit.

Education is not success but it is to help us succeed.

I hate school at that time. Now, little did I know that actually if I had stayed in school I would've actually really liked college. I wasn't aware enough to know that the junior high I was suffering through would be school at its worst.

I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.

I know that college is a big step from high school. So I wanted to make sure I was ready for it.

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of my students.

I don't believe a mistake-free learning environment exists.

The SSN Institute will be expanded in areas such as liberal arts, social sciences, natural sciences, communications.

During my first semester of college, I raised my hand in a class and asked the professor to define a word I didn't know. The word was holocaust, and I had to ask because, until that moment, I had never heard of it.

For me specifically, I think college benefited me. Just getting me out of doing, getting me out of what I was doing before. I was just doing the same thing, you know, every day, same schedule, just practicing, training, things like that.

When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.

In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.

For me, college was a big learning experience on and off the court, just growing as a person, becoming more mature.

Students deserve a safe place to learn and grow.

I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.

The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.

I teach a freshman seminar every year, and we delve very, very deeply into their mindsets. They read scientific articles, but we also focus on what their mindset is, and they learn to recognize when they are in more of a fixed mindset, because we're all a mixture.

Indian higher education is completely regulated. It's very difficult to start a private university. It's very difficult for a foreign university to come to India. As a result of that, our higher education is simply not keeping pace with India's demands. That is leading to a lot of problems which we need to address.

High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new opportunities emerges, in part, from a willingness to take risks and to fail.

I learned a lot at Kentucky.