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Quotes of the Day for 1 September 2004 - Students

Back to School Week continues at Quotes of the Day. With admittedly vague recollections from those long-ago days when I was in school, I believe the focus of the process is the students. I do remember some of them, although I find that I'm hopelessly unable to match names and faces at our reunions. So here's to the Students, without whom teaching would doubtless be less trouble but completely pointless.

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
     - Anthony J. D'Angelo

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.
     - George Iles

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.
     - Henry Brooks Adams, 1838 - 1918

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
     - Jacob Bronowski, 1908 - 1974

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
     - John Stuart Mill, 1806 - 1873

It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
     - Angelo Bartlett Giamatti, 1938 - 1989

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